THE BRITISH WHIG] 90TH YEAR. | suga {tions of a sugar combine, has at last | | brought PE EY Vi HE ' i LJ - WN i Published Dally and Semi-Weekly > TAB DRITISH WHIG PUBLISHIN €0., LIMITED ¢. G. Elliott Leman A. Golid President Managing-Director TELEPHONE Private Ixchange, connecting all departments SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daisy Edition) One year, ia eity One year, if paid in advance $5.00 One year, by mail to rural offices $2.50 One year, to United States $3.00 (Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash One year, if not paid in advance One year, to United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: F. Calder, 22 St. Johm St, Montreal ¥. W., Thompson ....100 King St. Ww. Toronto. * letters to the Editor are published only over the actual name of the writer, . $1.00 1.50 $1.50 Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations utd No man is a hero to als office boy. an i---- The proper study of manking is back yards. --ii------------ Almost any system of government | will work if the people will. a---------- Correct this sentence: "All goods offered below cost at this sale." amii---------- A man isn't old until he begins to wonder dismally what the world is coming to. ------ The explanation of contempt for law is the reasonable hope of gettirg away from it. gome things are better said with flowers, but the widow says it bet- ter with weeds. ee ete eae-- Honesty may be the best policy, put the man who is honest for policy's sake isn't. ---- Noblesse oblige now means that hand workers should be patient with thelr inferiors. No wonder the Bolshies deny God. In the very beginning God brought order out of chaos. In the language of flowers, when the wife gets roses in bud, that's a gign the husband's in bad. One thing we like about the styles affected by the early Egyptians is that they diede.out after a while. A normal man is one who thinks he is a great help around the house when he cleans his own safety razor. ---------- z The Red army leads a hard life. _ Almost every week it is moholized to scare newspaper correspondents. tt---------- Don't worry about your wandering boy. He has to do more or less wan- dering in order to find parking space. Our idea of a natural-born sucker fs a man who feels complimented when asked by a friend to endorse a note. -- . Bxample of a fairly good Class B "fe: "I wouldnt want to loaf all the time, even if I had a millon dol- lars." ---- A genius is a novelist who can sit fn a soft chair near a radiator and write convincingly of God's great open spaces. A convict has $2,000,000. It was- ' a case of grave injustice, how- 'gver. Ho inherited it after being ---------------- It is dificult for a general practi- * mble charges. : te . (Een though the streets are of and the walls of jasper, lots of will be disappointed by the of platinum. difference between a super-' pduction etd a common feature e is that you can sit through » common one without getting 0 . tn A rt tnt. BLE THOUGAT FOR TO-DAY 'W TO CONQUER AN 'When e man's v 'be mateth be at peace with TO STOP SPECULATION IN FOOD. The steady rise in the price of action from the United States attorney general, and the ec- tion taken in a drastic one. He has filed an Injunction by which he hopes to force down the price of {sugar and to protect the consumer {from the profit-making dealings of | brokers and financiers, His action | amounts simply to an injunction on | trading in futures; that is, on trad- ing on the stock exchange in sugar { without any of that commodity b2irg |detivered. That there is some neces- | [sity for action along these lines is | jevident from the fect that on a re- jcent day, in New York, there were { {050 tons of sugar, but the amount actually delivered, according to the |government records, was 900 tons. |an the rest were 'paper sales," that | |1s, sales made of sugar, at a profit, which did not involve delivery, th2 |sugar simply being held for re-sale to some other broker at a profit, the {new buyer also hoping to make a | further profit on the deal. {This speculation in food is not {confined to sugar. It is rampant in | the handling of every form of food- stuffs sold to any large extent. Every | day, millions of bushels of wheat, | parley, oats, rye and other farm pro- | ducts are sold on a future basis, and ! this is eimply .a form of gambling. {The buyer gambles that on a eertain |date in the future he will be able !to take delivery of the goods he buys on paper, at the price named, and turn them over at a profit. His paper may be sold a dozen times the date mentioned and each sale adds a | little more to the price Usually, the {bet is a good ome, for the financiers | generally manage to manipulate the i market so as to protect their future { buyings. The public suffer, because they have to pay the price for the | speculation. | It might be a good thing if the in- junction which is to be applied to | sugar might be extended to other {foodstuffs in which there is gamb- |iing. The measure will be fought, |there is no doubt of that, for it will {prevent the financiers speculating in sugar, and prevent many of them 'trom making fortunes at the expense of the public. Attorney-Ceneral Daugherty needed a gréat amount of courage to take the step he has [taken, but public opinion will be |pohind him, and if his actions suc- ceed, then the effect will be felt ir Canada as well as in the United States. over before | {comes along, OBSTRUCTING BUSINESS. The Conservatives have on many occasions shown themselves to be past masters in the act of obstruct- ing public business in the provincial and federal parliaments, and it can- not be said that the Canadian public {has ever expressed approval of this lcourse of action. Seldom, however, {have the Tories ever done so with more stubbornness than -they have been showing in the legislature dur- {ing the past few days. They have {stated clearly that their intention is [to prevent the new redistribution bill itor Ontario from passing through ithe Ontario house, and by simply talking they are succeeding in their efforts to blook legislation. They have made many lgng distance speeches, and there seems to be no end to their flow of oratory. If they were saying anything worth saying in their speeches they might be par- doned, but they are simply talking for the sake of talking--for the sake of holding up the business of the legislature to such an extent that dis- {solution will come before the re- distribution bill is passed. Their attitude has not even the 'stamp of consistency. During the previous weeks of the session they i pleading with Premier | Drury to bring in a redistribution {pil}. They charged him with being ueglectful to his duty so long as he did not do so. Now their wish has been granted. A redistribution bill has been brought in, and their first step was to announce that they were going to block it. Apparently their previous requests were merely a blind to make the people believe that Premier Drury was not doing what was right, ard that they should be given credit for trying to make him toe the mark. Now they have a dif- ferent story, but the public will realize that their former attitude was one of camouflage, and that they are now afraid that the government will be given credit for passing the 'meas- ure for redistribution end elecioral reform. It is not so many years since the Conservatives showed that they would use no mercy to those who persisted in -blocking tactics, for when this was tried by the Liberals in the federal house the gag was applied, and the closure adopted to prevent a blockade of the house. Af that time they were very much hurt when the Liberals tried to talk against time, but now that they are doing it, they think it is allright. 'The public may stand for a certain amount of that attitude, but they will soon tire of it, and condemn the {have been r, said to be due to the specula~ | transactions made involving 1.515, | + party for carrying on No good | Conservative © |the ' government business of the provifice. the have the satisfaction of making new {records for making long speeches, |, contain | put when theze speeches nothing that is worth saying, then {there is small satisfaction to be | gained 'in even that. Prer has taken the right course, under {the cincumstances, in dropping the redistribution bill, and in his de- can be done by this process, except ! that a few hard-necked Tories will | ier Drury | preventing | Sheik, who had called ur cut with you to-night so tired I promised supper dishes and then « mending for her to-night Ouch! that a eglways are trea r how old they are)" here grinned and over married old uh)" retorted his wife, 3 : ere we jave to treat cones like babies, no matter how {they are." cision to appeal to the electorate in June next. "PLAY BALL." Not 74,000 persons, but the eves | of the American continent were fo- | cussed on the opening game of bese- ball in the American League, played in the greatest stadium in the world | | sneezing was considered a sign of good at New York on Wednesday when the | Socks by a score of 4 to 1. | Yankees defeated the Boston Red | For it | | was in this game that the national | | sport may truly be said to have | reached the highest point in {ts de- | velopment with respect to. the effici- | ancy of the competing: players, in | the vast amount of smoney expended lin the stadium, and in the fevered {excitement of the millions of people {who watched the outcome of the con- | test. What baseball means to America may be realized from the considera- tion of a few startling.facts. The site-of the new arena of the Yankee | Club in New York cost $600,000, and the arena itself $2,500,000. It is a monument to baseball and eleven | months were spent in its erection. | When completed it is estimated that the capacity will be 85,000 people. {On Wednesday 74,200 were admit- {ted and 25,000 were turned away! | The Stadium covers ten acres and | before the actual work of building {could be started 45,000 cubic yards | | of earth were used in levelling and | {25,000 cubic yards had to be exca- | vated for the foundation for the grand stand and bleachers in which the following materials were used: 2,500 tons of structural steel, 1,000 tons of reinforcing steel, 2,000,000 feet of lumber, four miles of piping for rails and 500 tons of iron. The massive structure crote. The fleld {is sodded with 116,000 square feet of sod convey- ed from Long Island. Governor Smith, of New York State, opened the game by pitching the first ball, and the occasion was marked by the attendance of Kene- saw M. Landis, American high com- missioner of baseball, Chicago, gov- ernors, generals, colonels, politicians and baseball officials from many states. The game fulfilled the high- est expectations of the greatest crowd ever assembled at one game, and Babe Ruth, champion batter, made it so by starting the season with a home-run hit that gave the Yankees three runs, the margin that won the game. But baseball in America to-day is more than a sport, although' based upon the sport instinct of the peopl: that has to be satisfied. It is an enormous business enterprise whose promoters have learned the secret of guccess. Can we not learn scme- thing from them? A Few Fall From Grace. Persecution and deportation of Armenians by the Turks is credited to the former's steadfast Christian character. There are a few, how- ever, who fall from grace occasion- ally..--Hamilton Spectator. | PRESS COMMENT Labor Can Be a Force. . Labor, organized, is a great force for good or a great force for evil. By keeping labor cicar of all exploiters, all "'peds" and all bolshevists, and attacking economic abuses with eco- nomic weapons, Canadian workers can be a force beneficient to them- selves and to all industry.--Vancou- ver Sun. Law for the Air. Tax laws, traffic Jaws, license laws, registration laws and laws affecting interstate relations, have grown out of the advont of the automobile, all of them being the response of society to new problems, new evils and new forms of crime. The arrest of a young man in California who is ae cused of flying away with another man's aeroplane and wrecking it in an unpremeditated nose dive sug- gests that the whole thing will have tc be done again with reference to emother form of transportation. Detroit Free Press. Sp ---------- ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR | ean Coal Pile Proves If, - Fruit crops, they say. Aga'n are lost; We think this spring Has been a frost. ---- Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. Tne oid-faghioned hitohihg post now to it. -- The Assaias Club. "No, Harold." said the flapper to her | | | | | is built of con- | | pas a "No Parking Here" sign nailed i | | | -- It's a Hard Life. Alas! To-day I feel 80 solemn 1 wish there were No Monday column Most of Girls Have Theirs Te- surfaced. (Headline in, Trenton (Mo) Times). . WILL PAVE MABEL And Druggists. Blinks--'"They say at one time Juck. tors. Lliiy Foel Questions. E. A., of Akron, asks: much can a man stand for, anyway? Well, Old Top, seven and a half cents here, if you buy tickets, but eight cents if you pay cash. fare in your town. ------ Takes Brains To Get Away With That. They say the owl's a wise old bird, And I am sure they are quite right For if he was not smart how could He manage to get out just every night? Showing Horses Are Just as Dangerous as Automobiles. (Frazeyburg Cor. Newark (Ohio) Advo- cate.) Lyman Evan met with a very pain- ful accident Tuesday, when a horse kicked him and broke his jaw. ------ Awful, Clarence, Awful! "pa" said Clarence, 'you build house on ground, don't you?" "Of course, you fool, you don't build it on alr," growled his dad. "Well, when wheat is ground, could you build & house on it?" Lucky Is Right. A lucky man Is Johnnie Wray. He's got a pass For opening day. A lucky kid 1s Tommy Held, He told his boss His grandma"d died. --Billy Wood Would Help Some. When autos keep me on the jump, As, 'course, they always do, It surely. makes me wish that I'd Been born a kangaroo: ---Sam Hill The kangaroo. folks will admit, In safety might not fail; But chances are that he'd get hit When landing on his tail. ---- Haven't Tried That Yet. Brown--"They say Germany has d'scovered a process for producing gasoline from coal" Black--"She'd make a bigger hit with France by discovering a way of producing what she owes her from coal." ---- Just Like Old-Time Been A blockhead's stories Should be good; For they are drawn Right from the wood. mR. HW. B. ---- . Ne Favoritism. «pa, said Clarence, "what did they mean by that old saying, 'it rains on the just and unjust alike?" "Oh," sald Pa, "back in those days umbrellas hadn't been invented, and the just couldn't buy sthem for the unjust to borrow when it rained, so they both got wet, I suppose." -- Gems From Guide Book to Success. The roughest roads will smoothen, The darkest days grow bright. While leaden skies dispel and rise, And heavy hearts grow light. Troubles like the mists will fade; Portentous ills be severed; For all who truthfully have lived, And truly have endeavored. --J. E. F, Our Canadian Question And Answer Corner s a bean Q. What is Canada's first greatest industry? A. Agriculture is Canada's first and leading industry; with an an- nual production value of a billion dollars, and giving employment to and sustaining the larger part of the entire population. Q. What is the estimated acreage of farm lands in Canadar A. Canada has, it la estimated, 300 million acres of land fit for farm- ing, with only 60 million under crop, or only 20 per cent. abi ------------------ Catching Sunbeams P.P.P. in Toronto Star. I watched a little child at play, With sparkling eyes, and chuvby hand, To try and catch a golden strand Of sunbeams HILDE veo Lhe way. - and Its darling angel baby-face Drooped down with tearful baby- smile, As little fists grasped while Dust bat filled the sunlit space. all in vain, And so is Life--we always try To hold the golden sunbeams close, That fall caressing on the rose. And show the blue depth of the sky. 5 And even though ourr tears fall down, ¥ On broken toys and shattered dreams, | "Beycnd" the gray road, | "gtill" gleams, { Weaves dust and sunbeams crown. Hope, to a Jinks--"Well, it gtill is+for the doc- | Just how | What's car | --Canton (Ohio) News ? las it circulates through the BIBBY'S THE CAIRO $25.00, $30.00 and $35.00 i | | \ | THE NOBBIEST | THE MOORE at . THE FERN at... Bl Ah SR | THE SMARTEST Sym il THE GREGORY | $256 | { THE SWELLEST SUITS IN I | THE. STANTON THE FREE SWING | $25.00 and $30.00 | $30.00 and $35.00 | NECKWEAR | elegance at | 95¢c. each. | | || and $3.75 BIBBY'S We Handle the Best Boys' Cloth Where the New Things Are Shown First | THE SMARTEST TOP COATS IN TOWN The Warner $18.00 and $22.50 THE CEDAR at... NIFTY SHIRT STYLES Real beauties at $2.50, $2.95 | Krease Collars THE .VERNON $22.50, $25.00, $27.50 HATS IN TOWN ..$4.75 cee +:$5.00 s+ $5.00 CAPS IN TOWN THE. GOLFER $2.50 oH TOWN THE ROW $30, $35, $37.50 NEW KANT | 3 for $1.06 i ing Made ost s---- "The J. K. Carroll Agency 56 BROCK STREET Phone 68. Res. 2240m--1128w. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE BROKERS We have about two hundred lots to choose from, prices ranging from $100 to $3,000. Houses in all parts of the city. We have several from $1,300 up. The Success ! 530 never traveled from his desk except to journey home, | A dreary life and dull, they said who thought it good to roam; | |He never danced with women ld But with his own, when day was | { nor paid for sparkling wine, | done, he hurried home to dine. 1 | That Pours "Dull, deadly dull!" the cynics said, | -- "yes, deadly dull and tame, | Cl The thrill of life has never seemed | By James W. | to set his blood aflame; i i Barion, M.D, He oes not throw for larger stages | nor seem to care for gold. | {And he shall have to work by day | Your Cogling System i when he is bent and old." Yes, as your body is a machine or | perfect piece of mechanism it has They wrote him down a its cooling system, just like a motor | doomed to drudge away |car. Your car stalls or gets "'seiz- | years, led" if it is overheated. {But his gay and brilliant brother And your cooling system is your heard the music of their cheers | skin. Many people think of it «8 a For he had wealth to squander, and |sort of bag holding us together, a | he could pay the bills, ! | more covering for the body ana yet And keep the laughter ringing and {it is as delicately organized as per- | furnish ail the thrills. ! {haps any other organ. The blood | body | | distributes the heat and keeps the | tempacature very nearly the same | {throughout the body. When it | | passes through am organ that in| making heat, such as a muscle that | is working, it leaves the organ] warmer than when it entered, and] | then as it circulates through the when these men's lives are writlien body it distributes this extra heat, and all they did is told, i 'and so tends to keep the tempera- gpail he be called successful (ture of all parts the same spent his years for gold? | When more heat than usual iS or was he not the greater whose tale formed it is sent to the skin and so | but simply runs, more heat is lost. {The drudge who left behind him On a cold day the cold causes the two clear-eyed manly sons? blood vessels of the skin to cou-| Edgar A. Guest. | strict, thus diminishing the blood | ~~ {supply, and at the same time checks | | perspiration, so that the loss of heat | (is diminished. | On a hot day the vessels dilate and there is the increased perspiration | which permits the body to lose heat {even on the hottest day. Thus the perspiration through the | skin is your cooling system, permit- {ting you to enter even & hot uven {without increasing your body vewm-! | perature to any extent. |" In cold weather more heat is lost but as you know you eat more iu ene cool weather, and thus produce more | heat. | Don't worry then if you perspire | freely. It is Nature's method of cooling the body and incidentally throwing off waste matter. . failure, ' the But time has traveled onward und both are dead and gone. i Two splendid sons and manly the | failure follow on, | And two the world despises the rich | man's money spend, i Two broken wrecks of pleasure whom | no one can befriend. i who | | { | Classified Adages | | | | Dic a well before you are thirsty. And be pre- pared for emergencies by following the A-B-C Clas- sified Ads regularly. Three Marathon Dancers Collapse. Read them to-day} | Washington, April 23.--The grin- { ner side of the long distance dance craze loomed up Saturday when three ivietims, a man and two women, were {sent to a hospital here after coHaps- {ing at the end of about 43 hours' Crosse &Blackwell's --MIXED PICKLES, -- CHOW CHOW. ~-- WHITE ONIONS, --WALNUTS --CAPT. WHITE'S ORIENTAL PICKLE. Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990, "The House of Satisfaction" DAVID 8COTT | Plumber Plumbing and Gas Work a spect lalty. All work guaranteed. Ad-|' dress 145 Frontenac Street. Phone 1277. Moth Proof Garment Bags Bedding, For Wraps, Furs, Draperies, Robes, etc. Air Tight Dustproof Prevents Wrinkling From 15c¢. to $1.85 TARINE SHEETS for wrap- ping clothes and lining chests, trunks or drawers ..13c. cach Or. Chown's Drug Store \80 Princess Street. Phone 343 ---- IN TIMES OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR --IN SUMMER ...* PLACE YOUR COALIN STORE! J HERE are several rea- sons why -you shoud I buy your winter coal during the summer months. The most important one is that you will thereby effect _a considerable saving of money--and then there may be a notable shortage of coal just when you are ia need of it. Who can tell? Crawford | dancing in one of the two contests | || (Copyright. 1923. by Basti L. Smith) aow under way in the capital. | i PHONE 3, RUEEN o = a . 4