7 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Daily and Semi-Weckly by THE DRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 00., LIMITED ++. President Editor and or ra f = DN ELEPHONE all vate change, connecting departments SUBSCRIPTION RATES; «¢ Edition) NOISE IN WwW A British scientist offers the pro- phecy that in the next war terrifying noises will play a large part in of- fensives. Maybe so. But it should be remembered that the Chinese re- lied largely on terrifying noises in warfare until they encountered Eu- ropean fighting forces--and found | that their gong divisions made little headway against the troops that fought with guns. However, making a noise like a crushing tax or like a fuel or food shortage might produce an effect worth striving for. rn THE LAW ON KISSES. A kiss may be disordering, moon- light may be disordering and a pro- posal may be disordering -- but all this does not make kissing in the roonlight, when a proposal is in pro- | cess, disorderly conduct. And so, | properly, has ruled a Western judge. | Manifestly the policeman who jn- ol terrupted the affair and haled kisser | and kissee to court was lacking in romance. Certainly man and maid are not to be held responsible for acts beyond their control. With a | fair moon shining and a loved one's 00 lips near, the temptation to kiss was \ © OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATI 5 Calder, 23 St. Johm St, Montreal '¥. W. Thompson ....100 King St. W. 0. Letters to the Edjtor a blished only dver the actual mame' of ed | Attached is The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations one of the best job in Canada. . There is very Mttle coal coming ~ out of the Ruhr now, and not a great 'deal of truth. * You can't expect everlasting peace in a world where ihe second man en- vied the third. The reason there is no color line France is because the Tricolor needs all colors. The modern: girl seldom chases a man. For that matter, molasses seldom chases flies. It may be a sense of justice that urges arbitration, but ususally it is a semse of weakness, The beginning of every great na- tion's decay has been a discussion of the servant problem. The difference between a prejudice and a principle is that you don't get mad about a principle. The lamb and the lion wi!l lie down together when the lamb hasn't 'anything the lion wants. Beards are unsanitary, perhaps, 'but they are not quite so amusing as an emotional Adam's apple, The autumn styles are sadly want- Ing in freakishness, and not a single tomb is being opened. © The poor Cuban patriot never 'knows which group of American * . bankers he should be loyal to. "The nations are so worn out that they haven't the energy to do more than be horrified by one another. In the old days, the Jilted girl died Of a broken heart; now the man in the case dies of a broken promise. If his car has two more cylinders than yours, and you call him a Big Stiff, that is class consciousness. Matrimony is much like fly paper. free fly never learns anything observing those that are stuck. -------- JA magasine writer says we need a religion. But let's not do any- rash until we try the old one. -- equipment, she can buy acces- ; but she can't change the chas- There is a ring of sincerity in "Italy's assurance that she asks only fair play, but Corfu does not ring ha t this sentence: "I always my boy with his lessons," boast- the father, "and I never become 3 's a 'sad world, and every style reveal's woman's charms re- in other instances the lack of undoubtedly irresistible. The law may be stern and grim and cold, but not so much as frown on the innocent trae love kiss. NO "MELANCHOLY" DAYS. "The melancholy days" are here. Don't believe it. It was a mournful moment that inspired genius to paint a sombre canvas of nature's most glorious garb. "The frost is on the | pumpkin and the fodder'z in the {shook." The arbors hang heavy with grapes, and the apple 'trees glow at sun-down dull red with fruit. Every hill is radiant with flaming reds and yellows and subtler tones that reveal the frost-king's art. Such days as these, gentle reader. be glad to be alive in Kingston. This is Autumn's gilded temple, every hill a golden staircase mounting to the mellowed sun. | To every season ascribe its own de- lights. But in Autumn any man may be king of all the great Outdoors. I --------------s READ NEWSPAPERS. The woman who knows her papar from the date line to the want ads can pick an argument with her hne- band about blondes becoming ex tinet, or a candidate's chanwes, «od the result is that she gets all the argument she wants without intes- fering in the least with her domeside happiness. Instead of panning one of her hus- band's associates' wives, she can lamb. the harpoon into some dame who is dragging her husband through the divorce courts, or she ean grill the dramatic critic who doesa't hke a certain show as much as she does. She can voice an opinion about a bit of news and throw more of a scare into her husband than if she tried to crown him with the goldfish. Women read the daily papers more carefully than men do. At laast this is the eonsensus of opinion in news- paper circles, where a close tab is kept on the tastes of people and the things that interest people. BEFORE THE BIBLE WAS, The announcement tht blocks of limestone placed on exhibition by the American Museum of Natural His- tory in New York are more than a million years old will doubtless rouse the ire of fundamentalists. Those who champion literal construction of the Bible will see in this statement another thrust at religion, another blow at orthodoxy, another denial of Holy Writ. The layers of the stone may plainly register a million years of existence, but that does not count with strict constructionists. As they saw an at- tack on the Bible in the theory of evolution, so they will undoubted!y see an assault on religion in this proffered evidence of antiguity that stretches back beyond the time fized by literal interpretation of the Old Testament. It is high time that these sticklers take new bearing and con- cede a comstruction of Holy Writ that squares with science. BRITISH TAKE UP ICE CREAM. A report from London says that the British are taking to ice cream and that the consumption this year increased 1,000 per cent. Perhaps it is the climate that has made the English, heretofore unresponsive to thie appeal of ices, but, having secur- od a taste, like Oliver Twist, they want more. It is a habit that grows, as is attested by the great increase in the manufacture of ice cream in into which it enters, there seem to In the aggregate tions. What is at first in the nature becomes in time some- may be a not indispensible article of food, but millons deem it desirable or it would not be purchasable on every hand. In delaying their ap- preciation the British have lost tha they might. have entered, to] once learning its merits possibly they will try to make up for the omission. That Body of Pours Who Was Right? During the examination of some nursing sisters for overseas service, the examining officer turned to me and said. "I'm afraid I'll have to reject Miss ~------ as she has an old spot at the top of her left lung." I was able to verify this, and told the young lady that we were sorry but that we could not allow her to go overseas. She felt so badly that I suggested | that that she consult-a lung special- fist for her own health's sake. | same advice as ourselves. | She went further and consulted | the head of a large private tubercu- losis sanitarium, who also advised her not to proceed overseas. She was a vory determined young lady and by using very strong argu- ments with an officer higher up, she was passed for overseas service, by a very reliable' lung specialist. Her arguments were hard to com- bat. She had done hard private nursing service for years, she had been in the army on home service for two years, with long hours. Her weight had not varied in those two years. She felt strong and well. 1i was not fair to hold her back after seeing two years in home service. Now why was she allowed to pro- ceed overseas? Was the thst examining physician any better equipped to give an opin- fon than the head of this large in- stitution? No. Both men stood high in the profession, in fact were practically of equal standing. It was simply that those physicians who rejected her, felt that she was a little light in weight, rather frail looking, and that with "the possible hardships in France, the old healed over spot in her left lung might break down and she would not have the frame, the body to combat it. Now the sequel is unsatisfactory although she got overseas, as it so happened that she was not under any strain at any time, and there was thus no' opportunity of finding out which specialist was right. And the lesson? That although a person may have an old healed spot in the lungs, they are perfectly safe under ordinary conditions, particularly it they have a good appetite and are not losing weight; but with hard indoor work and long hours, there is liable to he a "lighting up" of the old trouble. Common sense is a big factor here, you see. A TIP FOR SIR ADAM. Detroit Free Press A man out in St. Louis named Doepke, who tells about it in an elaborate typewritten statement has found the cause of all the changes and disasters to which Dame Nature has fallen victim since 1900. It is the Chicago drainage canal. That wicked ditch by foisting an unpre- cedented amount of fresh water on the Gulf of Mexico has disturbed the equilibrium at the equator, lowered the normal temperature of the Gulf stream, caused abnormally high tem- 'peratures in the Arctic so that the glaciers are melting inordinately, made changes in the Alaskan coast line, brought on a rise in the floor of the Atlantic, and caused "disastrous storms, tidal waves, cloudbursts, un- precedented rains, subterranean up- heavals and so forth, "such as the Galveston flood, the eruption 6? Mt. Pelee," and other manifold disasters. We presume the gentleman could also show that it caused the Europ- ean war and the rise of bolshevism. Sir Adam Beck has drawn up a pretty stiff indictment against the Chicago ge canal in his fight in behalf of Canada to curtail what is unquestionably an evil and an abuse, but his effort is a feeble, col- orless thing beside this. We sug- gest to Sir Adam that he get busy and get some dope from Doepke. : Alberta's Name. Edmonton Journal riting in the New York Times about the visit of the Prince of Wal- es to this province, P. W. Wilson, says that Alberta derived its name from Prince Albert, the great-grand- father of the proprietor of the E. P. ranch. It may have done so indirect- ice cream and the various concoctions | industries grow to mammoth propor-| jrunning "that paper," and without She did so, and he gave her the | LA. Fellow Royal Geographical Soclety, London, England. > Clarence Ludlow Brownell, M boa. "What is a newspapez {question as easy to ask a | cult to answer. Anyone | fault with a newspaper, [ people do find fault with any paper | that does net fit in with their per- sonal preferences. A large number | of ihdividuals do not hesRate to say what they would do if they were exception, these individuals have had no experience in running a daily pa- per. They are like the critics of ho- tels; any partioular!y emphatic critic of an hostelry prohehly never ran even a boarding house. The fault finders are fluent enough when merely finding fault, and are fairly fluent often when telling what they would do, but they pause be- fore replying to the quesiion with | which this column opens. They hesi- tate, and if a bona fide newspaper man questions them for a while, they soon discover tho fact that they have 'little real knowledge bf what a newspaper is, and of the conditions under which it appears. The New York #roblem. But there has been sn object les- son in newspaperism recently. It is sti'l in evidence. The strike of the pressmen in New York city furnish- What Is a Newspaper? | ed the object lesson. *'The strike was due to disagreement over wages. It was a walk-out, and stopped the pub- lication of newspapars in the metro- polis, about the raiddle of Septem- ber As a consecusnce, ten of the pro- minent papers comb'ned, and manag- od t)> issue a co-operation sheet, which has been appearing regularly --that is, daily since the strike. It is | a significant sheet, for it shows the 6,000,000 inhabitanis what proprie- tors of ten of the newspapers think is essential in the make-up of a met- ropolitan daily paper. It would seem from this '"'combin- ation" of the World, Tribune, News, Times, Herald, American, Journal! of Commerce, Telegraph, Staa's Zei- 'tung and Il Progresso Italo-Ameri- cano, that the least of the essentials in the daily paper is the editorial. The editorial has disappeared. This omission of editorials attracts notice and occasions comment, but the rea- son is obvious. Two different news- papers could not agree as to an edi- torial policy, much less ten. It did not seem feasible to let each of the ten papers supply editorial matter in turn, though doubless the pulMic would have taken an interest in such a programme. There is not room for even 'a short editorial by each editorial staff in the same issue, which would surely produce a crazy quilt page, and be of no value from the editorial standpoint. Consequent- ly the ten papers decided that the easiest, safest and most economical plan was to abandon editorials al- together, during the publication of the "combination." Once upon. a time two men who owned the Atlanta Constitution disa- greed politically, and to avoid dis- rupting their publishing business, they divided the editorial page be- tween tiem. Each owner had his personal staff, and as each said open- ly "did his damdest" to win the readers of the Constitution to his way of thinking. It was a wonderful bit of advertising, for it increased the paper's circulation more than 35 per cemt., and the Constitution held its new readers after the cam- paign was over. This incident not a criterion for the ten New York papers to go by, however. General news, the news that con- cerns everyone, is the strong feature of the "combination." It is good for any town to have a paper that goes strong on general news. This applies to New York City as well as to smaller towns, perhaps a little bet- ter, for New Yorkers know less of the rest of the United States then do the inhabitants of almost any other city in the American republic. Better Than Monkey Glands. Sporting news receives attention, but perhaps not to the extent it would in a London, England, *"com- bination"! under similar cireum- stances. Sport is not vital to Ameri- ca yet, though it is developing. Sport has kept England virile. It is better than monkey glands. All North America needs to approach much closer to the English flair for sport. Being New York City, financial news is of especial importance. It is the news for the Gothamite, ex- ceeding in interest even 'divorce pro- ceedings, and royal scandals. There is goodly space for personal mention of those who depart, and those who arrive by steamer. New Yorkers do more vacationing abroad than at me. They have the steamer habit. They acquired it generations ago. Going abroad means so much. See America first is all right, of course, but to the New Yorker it is of no sig- nificance compared to doing Europe. heartstrings of the people of Man- hattan Island that for in- stance,--, well it would make a New Yorker laugh to thing of. Chicago Besides this, there 1s considerable red | cAuse you have tov much money? Paris and London have a hold on the |. 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We have a large list of farms for sale and many exception- ally good bargains. T. J. Real Estate and Insurance 68 Brock St., Kingston, Ont. Phozes 322J or 1797). Germany is, What is money good for .any- way? Simply to facilitate trade in things we need. We must. have food, clothing and shelter, with per- haps a few luxuries added. We cannot carry food to market every day to trade for clothing, so we trade services, food, clothing, or shelter for money.; Then we take the money and trade for the things we want It is this efficiency which makes money useful, However, we can't have much more money than goods or people will not trade. In that case its ef- ficiency is lost. Inefliciency caused by upset money conditions decreases the amount of goods. It is goods, not money, which makes any one rich or poor, Consequently the German people are getting poor because they have too much money, Identified. A Western bishop related this sto- ry: Hearing a farmer say he was a E i if ie itl E i i i 2 7} 8 § f § i ¥ Money talks--and it often says a lot of foolish things. Y On the other hand, money can speak with the greatest of common sense. What kind of conversation your purse contribute to the joy of the family? Have it to gossip De with the mer- chants who sell you the prod- ucts your daily life demands? 1 Give your income a colle rons oping for 1 or for r . sonal heeds. Education in the art of buying is found in the advertising columns of your home newspaper. Study the a i EE is I is i OWENS Soap Powder Cleans like magic Clothes, Carpets, Tapestry, Upholster- ing and Window Blinds. Re- moves stains and shine from clothes. It is being demon- strated all this week at our store. Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 990, "The House of Satisfaction" Rubber Tubing All sizes, for all pur- poses -- Red, Grey and Black. 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