THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG » BATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1985 Ee MI nt cmt " LF EE Et President Editor and Managing-lsirector United Stat 83.00 to ates .,... . Ye Domi Weekly Edition) anh $1.00 yenr, by mall, ¢ year, it id $1.50 50 ET "OF -TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: | $htder, 3% St. Joba ¥t, Montreal * Thompson ,...100 Kisg %1. W. : t: Teson ters to the tor sre published name of the ly over the actual one of the best job nade. 1 is oftices in Ca. circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Ctrculations Woman's lines are charming. The ly one we don't care for is the feline. » EE ------------------ » Democracy. A land where people "tonfuse independence and bad man- ~~ The quickest way to achieve wic- "dom is to study the blisters one has Acquired. The way of a man with a maid re- quires litle ast. The hard part is 'the getawdy. 'We reflect With 'sadness that no 'Status has been erected to the man 'Who invented castor ofl. Some peaple keep on buying best t* When they haven't a spare tube to their name. Mrpo has many things to leern, it the art' of sneaking up on a isn't one of them. you "have neither birth nor h, you can be good and acquire it same superior feeling. remson they are- called wild '#8 because you seldom catch t of them in daylight. ------ economist says there aro for- in waste paper. That's where German fortunes are. ------------------ 's a quiet Sunday if you hay, ing to show for it but.a crumpl- il fender and two hroken ribs. ou can figure out a way to live $800 a year #f you have a pencil paper and $5,000 a year. ; -- "Another sad thing about the Ital- a situation is that d'Annunzio isn't iifng any publicity ont of it. Sleeping powders won't help fuch ] you can arrange to slip them the neighbor's phonograph. Eo M-------- Bolshevism may be the solution, Ir all, It leaves a coumtry too demoralized to make war. an industrial controversy, the ple never are asked to say how they would like to be soaked. "Phe average man now lives thirty- | years longer than he did in 1500. to in order to get his taxes present conflict between and 'Germany is unfair. Verbs are so much more WAR WITH THE KLAN, look upon the United States as the home of freedom, liberty and de- mocracy have received a fomewhat rude shock by the reports which have been issued regarding martial law being proclaimed in the state of Oklahoma as the result of the efforts of Governor Walton to curb the ac- tivities of the Ku Klux Kian. In certain quarters his action in trying to wipe out this organization and put an end to usurpation of author- ity has béen meeting with approval, and has been hailed as a step which required real courage. The Ku Klux Klan seems to consider itself a self appointed 'medium of enforcing the laws of the state, and yet, in trying to carry out their constitution, its members have . themselves been guilty of the most outrageous law- | iessness. To such an extent has this | épread that no man who was not a | member of the order was safe from its depredations, and for the past two or three years the problem of curbing its activities or of keeping {them within lawful bounds has | created a condition which has been {hard to handle. Governor Walton | has put himself in a perilous posi- | tion by his strong arm methods, for {it is certain that some effort at eance will be made if the. mem- bers of the order can find a way open Ito inflict their punishment upon their enemy. It is strange that a situation such as is to be found in Oklahoma could exist in a country which is supposed to be in a high state of civilization. The boast of the people of the Unit- ed States is that their country is the { most truly democratic in the world. { Yet here we have the Ku Klux Klan, supposed to represent one hundred per cent. Americanism, bcoming the most autocratic organization of its kind ever brought into being. It re- cognizes no rights of its enemies. All who stand in its path 'are ruthlessly cast aside by its lawless methods of vengeance, and life and property alike are destroyed when its mem- bers feel that some individual has transgressed against the laws. There is mo opportunity for defence, no thought of giving the victim any trial. Hooded and masked, the Klansmen set out on their errand of revenge or punishment, working under the cover of darkness, and they never rest umtil they have ac- complished their object. * Their autocracy, however, is be- ing met by an autocracy which is akin to their own. Governor Walton, sincere as he may be in his desire to curb the activities of the Klan, is deserting the principles of demo- cracy when he denies to the state assembly the right to meet and dis- cuss the situation. He has taken the attitude of a dictator, and is defying the constitution which is held so sacred by his refusal to invoke the civil law or the criminal law in his fight with the Klan. The spectacle is not an edifying one, and it makes one wonder whether the boasted de- mocracy of the United States is so real as it is made out to be. The situation in Oklahoma should be a warning to the people of Canada to have nothing to do with the Ku | ve # | Klux Klan, which is avowadly mak- ing an effort to establish itself in this country. Although the attorney- general has stated that 'he will im- mediately take action against any attempt of the Klar to .usurp the powers of the authorities in Ontario, that would simply be a case of lock- ing the stable door after the horse has been stolen. The vital point is that the citizens of this province should be fully alive to the dangers of the Klan, so that when its agents come here in their efforts to organ- ize, they will be given no encourage- ment, and will be told plainly that their organization is not wanfed on this side of the border. A BUSINESS NECESSITY. The people of New York last week had an experience of how essential the dally newspaper has become to their lives. When the newspaper pressmen of that city went on strike without a moment's notice and made it impossible for the great news- papers of New York to publish for three or four days, the whole city seemed turned topsy-turvy. A com- bination newspaper, a limited num- ber of which were published by the co-operation of eight of the news- paper offices, was but a drop in the , | the operator sits was an immediate falling-off in their { customers, and business: was almost { completely suspended. In speaking [ot this dislocation of business, the | head of one of the largest depart- | ment stores made the following statement : "The slump 'n shopping is caused by our inability to advertise in the newspapers. The first day of the strike was not so bad--the impetus of the previous day's advertising car- | ried us over. Yesterday it was worse. To-day it is awful. To-morrow and each succeeding day we cannot ad- | vertise it will be even more notice- able." ; This experience leads one to the | sosstuden that newspaper advertis- | | the machinery of business. It took only two days without newspaper ad- vertising to dislocate business in the city of New York, and to make the business men of that city realize their helplessness without this means of placing their wares before the public. There is a great lessor in this. Mt shows that the newspaper and newspaper advertising are real business necessities, and that the merchant who would keep his busi- ness progressing must advertise. It shows, also, that (little worthwhile benefit can be gained from a single advertisement once ina while. Tha impetus of the previous advertising carried the New York stores for only one day, and then the sales dropped. Yet there are men in business who advertise once or twice a month, or even once a week, and expect that their business will keep on growing. The lesson of the New York strike is that newspaper advertising is re- quired to keep business on thé move, and that the constant advertiser is the one who reaps the most benefit from it. ------------ RESULT OF THE COAL STRIKE. As was expected, the net result of the coal strike in the United States has been an increase ia the price of coal. The same cld vicious circle, sof which the consumer is always the victim, has b2en put into operation, and every person who buys coal dur- ing the coming winter will be paying part of the cost of the strike which lasted two weeks, bu: which was, apparently sufficicat to caus: & sub- stantial rise in the price of fuel. Al- though the president of the United States ha$ stated thar he could see no necessity for any increase in price owing to the strike, it is not likely that he will be able to take any ac- tion to control it, and the mine oper- ators will have the satisfaction of securing a larger reward for their ownership of mines than they have ever had in the past. : If the public generally could be assured that the coal mine troubles had been settled once and for all, there would not be so much objec- tion to a temporary increase in price, buf there is no such assurance. It has always been a peculiar factor of coal strikes that there has never been any attempt at a permanent agreement. The parties in the dis- pute come to terms, but these are effective only for a short period, and the battle has then to be fought all over again. The recent strike was settled by an amicable agreement be- tween the miners and the operators, but the new contract is one for two years only, and it expires on Septem- ber 1st, 1925. When that time comes, the same old trouble will crop up, and if history is any guide, there will be another dispute and adother strike. There will be no guarantee of protection to the public, who will simply have to stand aside while the battle is being waged, and then come forward and pay the price after an- other temporary settlement has been reached, and when that expires in its turn the same process will be re- peated again: It seems as if both the coal miners and the operators look upon strikes as unavoidable accessories to their business. It is sure that no real effort is ever made to prevent them, or to reach an agreement which would be permanent. The result usually is that the coal miner re- ceives the increase in wages or the shorter hours of labour which he demands. The coal operator, in his turn, receives a higher price for his coal to make up for the cost of the strike and the increased wages he has to 'pay, and the consuming nub- lic have the whole cost; with a little more added, put on the price they Dave to pay for their coal. In any time he loses is taken into considera- tion, the consumer has to pay a great deal more than he should pay, and back and smiles as added profits he is to make by increasing the price his produet. $< 5 ------------ ing is the motive power which drives ! case, the miner gains Httle when the | he vember 8th, 1893. His lite was an Those who have been inclined to|Sales. Their stores were emptied of | exhibition of unflinching pursuit of | purpose, such as Smiles was keen | for, and delighted to dwell upon, to | ustrate his homilies, and he was, | moreover, altogether devoid of self- | seeking. unselfish. His father was pastor of the New {North Chureh in Boston, Massachu- | setts. His grandfather, Samuel Park- man, was a man of means, whose home was Derheps the finest in Bos- ton. Young Parkman lived in this mansion on Bowdoin Square before he entered Harvard. His mother was Caroline Hall, of Medford, Mas- sachusetts, famous in its early days for its potent waters. She was. a de- scendant of John Cotton, the framer of the civil laws of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and teacher of the First Church of Boston, and who, incidentally, was in the colonies as a refugee from the persecutions ef Archbishop Laud. : A famous book of Cotton's was a New England cate- { chism, which he called Spiritual Milk for Babes. He passed away in 1652, The future thistorian's youthful days were thus in a sort of Yankee paradise. He was in an environ- ment that few young men 'on this side of the Atlantic have enjoyed. Fa had behind him generations of cul- service. In his daily life, he was in touch with those who made Boston what it was then, "the Hub" of Am- erica's intellectual life. He breathed an atmosphere that one found in many places abroad, but without the taint of caste that was until * very recently only too apparent in most continental towns. He looked for- ward to years of continuous produc- tion, free from mental or physical worries, and" replete with all" the highest social enjoyments. One would readily declare him to be the favored of the gods. He was favor- ed, but the days were different in ex- pectation and realiza'fon. Grievously Handicapped. Because of his courage in the face of disaster, and because of his con- tinuous courage, and because of the triumph that was his, despite the odds against him, the story of Park- man's life is stimulating. As an ex- ample of persistent heroism in the service of truth and of humanity, Parkman's life will speak down through the vista of ages to come, and its message will be that one word "service." Parkman wrote simply, he wrote beautifully, and above all, he wrote truthfully. One great historian has sald of Parkman's work that it is the only story of the times with which it deals that will never reed rewriting. His style is irresistible. The mere reading of it affords pleas- ure. Its buoyant joyousness and clar- dty exhilarate. - When the reader Pauses to recall that. this grace and elegance and happiness of phrase came from the mind of a man who lived in blindness almost, a man whose nervous system was so dis- ordered that none of the world's specialists could diagnose his condi- tion, a man who could give but a few minutes at a time to mental concen- tration, and had to relax into com- plete quiet and darkness to recover from the brief moments of activity, a man who could not endure sun- light and could not venture out only on dull gray days, he is doubtful that the age of miracles passed nineteen hundred years ago. But Francis Parkman did produce beaury out of suffering and the clear truth, and became famous. though fame was not what he sought. He car'ied through life a purpose from schoolboy days, until the number of his years, three score and ten, had come. How the author of "Self Help" would have gloried in the re- cord! The 'first twenty years of Park- man's life gave no inkling of the physical tortures he was to live un- der for upwards of half a century. He appeared far above the average in physical strength and endurance during his Harvard days. He came of splendid stock, sturdy and intel- lectual, with none of the antecedents that suggest a possibility of nervous collapse. He exercised consistently and spent all of his vacations in the Canadian woods, and the region he had. already determined to write about. . dan, When Eyesight Fatled. He seemed in these days to have the physical endurance of the best of the Indian guides, and was famous ese. Then came the catastrophe. His eyesight failed almost completely, and his brain speeded in its action that was terrifying at intervals. it seemed to be "running away." He bad a fierce desire to work, but could neither read mor write a line. He could not exercise out of doors unless the day was dark. He could only walk it within 'doors and listen. 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You say to youresif, "Ism't it ag- gravating, just after I've got a mew Lrake lining put into my car, I'll have to get new pistons. If it ism't one thing it is another." You then decide to get a new car, rather than put up with mcon- veniences. 'And so that body of yours when it is getting ready to let you pass out of the world, begins to give you & little trouble here and there, Perhaps it Is a touch of indiges- tion that seems ¢o come on you 1ire- quently, perhaps your feet are swel- ling at times, Maybe you catch cold rather easfly. Now'that is what we all must expect as we grow older. Parts of us will begin to "go down a bit" and any one of these parts may be the cause of our deavn, But just the same, before jt gow old, any part of a car may let you down. Trying to drive the car | without ofl, or using poor gas, a bit of poor brake lining may render | the car useless, Similarly a man or woman in the prime of life may have one single | organ go wrong----his stomach, heart, | kidneys or lungs, ang he passes out | of life notwithstanding the fact that the rest of hig body may be In fair shape. > So don't walt if you notice & single sign or symptom that is not norm- al. See your family physician and talk to - him about it. Hell not laugh at you. That day has gone y. It may bea small matter, or on the other hand {it may be serious. Remember what a little thing does to your motor car. 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MONEY AT WORK Brief but Important Lessons in Finance, Markets, Stocks, Bonds and Investments BUT THIS (DETERMINED FORESIGHT) The strangest thing about a busi. ness boom is that most people don't realize that anything is wrong, un- til it is all over, In checking back over periods Just preceding a decline in busi- ness, it Is evident that very rew expected it. Everything was won- derful. The sales force is always jubi- lant at that time and a plant can't to fill orders. The executive who gets cautious snd wants to curtail ex- pansion is usually laughed at. i There seems to be no end to good times, until they are over. Yer it is this blind faith in continuing to tush ahead at agvancing prices that niakes the end so drastic when it comes, If we could manage to keep ca ye ou the future Instead of mereiy concentrating on the present, we would soon develop emough rane- ness and foresight to avoid booms. a ---------- Mrs. Mary Adelaide 'Bowen, wis ¢f George Bowen, Belleville, died on Thursiay. Bhe was a daughter of the lafe Matthew Clarke and wa; bern fn Bath, sixty-five years ago. On Monday, Sept. 24th, 'the deat: oecurred of C. H. Boardman, Tren' , after an iliness of Sits montis, ' '. 3 : D water. Stations and PHONE 9. O WENS Blue Soap. Powder Cleans like magic Clothes, Carpets, Tapestry, Upholster- ing and Window Blinds. Re- moves stains and shine from clothes. It is being aemon- strated all this week at our store. Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 ana 990. 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