\ ished Daily and Semi-Wee kly by WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED Ge Elliott ... nm A. Guild ! President | the late U and | Managing-Director| rural tor ROAD STAND, The Frontenac county council is | persistent in its refusal to pay its share of the building and mainten- ance of the provincial highway through this district during Years 1921 and 1922. Frontenac has paid .for the years 1919 and | 1920, the amount of $101,000 for | those years having been levied upon je front townships and Portsmouth. | The highways act was | that all the townships of rural muni: | cipalities must the highway charges whéther they are directly benefited or not. The Frontenac northern and island town- | have been persistent in their of refusal to vote for the necessary de- | benture by-law, and settlement of the past two years' charges has been | delayed. _ A promise was made by -F.O. government that the municipalities would be re- lieved of payment after 1922, but | whether the Ferguson government | will follow out this idea and also Weekly Editio Ie year, by mail, cash .... Ine year, to United States UT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATI s Oajder, 22 St. John St. " Thompuon VES Toronto. $5.00 wl cage; in fact most of the municipali- «3180| ters to the Editor are published over the actual mame of the relieve the urban municipalities is yet to be seen. The bills of 1921 and 1922 will have to be met in any | ties have paid up for those years, have refused to meet the bills ren- dered by the department. What the o in Cana The circulation of THE BRITISH '. WHIG is authenticated by the E ABO Audit Bureau of Cireulations " Uneasy lies the lad who skips : from school, -------------- People also get divorces for bet- ter or for worse. S-------------- We can't anderstand that man Mussolini, He hasn't paged Mars for a week, i + ------ : Speaking of nice jobs, we'd like lo have the checking privilege on Is side of the Styx. £ If there must be fighting by Ger- 8, it is better that if be dome in many than in France or Belgium, % Mussolini set the style as a dic- tator but his would-be imitators seem unable to get the hang of the ---- . A bright child probably wonders | Why its parent is a tyrant part of the time and a valet part of the 'time. ey A free country is one in which every man may hope to be rich and iverbearing and arrogant to-mor- Etiquette note: It isn't necessary get on your knees to propose if 8irl happens to be sitting on em. The noses that get ieoather poo. ple's affairs arp the ones that have little acquaintance with the grind- - stone, i -------- Wilhelm the ex has put his uni- orms back in the mothballs and resumed sawing wood.--Water- Times, S---------- An examination of mayoralty pos- bilities serves to emphasize the #ifference between "possibility" and "probablity." ---- A man orders more quickly than Woman---not because his wits a imbler, but because he is afra the waiter, » ---------- Mrs. Belmont is right. Marriage & kind of slavery. But you can't the average man believe it til it 1s too late. ata University of California co-eds get vaccinated on the leg, it won't show," have great in style makers. -------- 'Germany's announcement of repu- afion of her obligations is Ahoy 4 news. That's what she has floing for several years. these young men who delight in bg thelr heads shine won't be een about that glistening effect the upper deck is nude, -------- this sentence: "I have a million business letters," boasted, "and never have writ 'yours to hand and contents en ; ---- A i AA. friendly. critic says President will leave no stone ' un- His experience on a Ver- reteset. + saysithe Brooklyn Eagle, saeon when the leaved fall ed Is one of the best Job ices da, 2 | is trouble ahead. 'Last winter the road by-laws and until a temporary | agreement was reached | Drury government, it looked as if | there would be no county road work done in the spring. The northern Land island reeves insisted that their | townships should be exempted in re- | gard to the provineial highway levy. This could not be done without paas- ing a special act, and it was pointed out that as other counties had paid without protest an exception could not be made in the case of Fronte- nae. "ru QUOQUE!" Shying half bricks at Uncle Sam for his failure to join the League of Nations was recently a national pastime and is still a populandiver- sion at high teas. Mr. Tom Moore, president Of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, writing in the August issue of Social Welfare; points out our own startling short- comings towards the International Labor Office, the one branch of the League which has at all fulfilled the expectations of its founders. The International Labor Office meets yearly to draft labor legisla- tion based not on the narrow inter- ests of any one country but on the best interests of the entire working world. After a vigorous fight by Canada's delegates this country was recognized as one of the eight coun- tries of chief industrial importance in the world and was accordingly | granted a permanent seat on the | executive of the International Labor Organization. But not one recom- mendation from .this body has be- | come law in Canada or in any one of the provinces. British Columbia alone has passed legislation embody- ing suggestions from the Labor Of- fice, but in each case has nullified | Ev than a dense pall of forest fire or, the act by. stating that it shall not become operative until the other Provinces have enacted similar legis- lation. Our evasion of responsibility has been easier because the recommen- dations transmitted to Canada-fall partly within the sphere of the fed- eral government and partly to the provinces. Between these two stools Canada has been content to sit, de- spite the inevitable loss of 4 ity. Of coursé many of the recom yenda- tions are already law, sometimes in one province and not in another. In such cases very little change would have enabled Canada formally to ratify these conventions, thus giving encouragement to less favored coun- tries where these improvements are still a matter of contention. But this we have not done. What we seem to lack is simple co-ordination, and both Ontario and New Brunewick have passed resolu- tions urging the federal government to convene a meeting of provincial and dominion representatives to con- sider carefully what legislation is desirable and practicable upon the varfous matters submitted by the International Labor Office. A -- i ---------- THE THRIFTY RECTOR. Mr. Kipling, in his cap and robes as Rector of St. Andrew's Univer- sity, Edinburgh, got home shrewd and valuable suggestions to the pack of high-spirited students whose roars and scuffles at such a gathering make a Queen's Convoca- tion seem by comparison like an arch-episcopal funeral. "Own yourself," is his word. Think for yourself--an increaseing- ly difficult feat in these days of quickening communications which almost compel men to. think and act in masses. Whatever the cost learn 'to hang on to as few persons and things as possible, which is the way to Independence. "The initial. pay- ments on the policy of one's inde- pendence, then, must be financed, Bo means for publication, but as ® guarantée of good faith ; the | afterward | amended to the extent of providing | pay their share of | :| Frontenac being one of 'the few that | Montreal | 00 King St, W., result will be in Frontenac is a ques- i tion, but it would appear that there | county council majority held up all | with the w with the/ { al re | one's self, primarily out drinks that one does not too continu- ously take; the maidens in. whom one does not too extravagantly re- joice; the entertainments that one does not too systematically attend or conduct; the transportation one does not too magnificently employ; the bets one does not too generally place, and the objects of beauty and desire that ene does not too gener- ously buy." He refers admiringly to the many lads who at various times had come | up to St. Andrew's carrying on their | backs their rations in the form of a | sack of oatmeal. Day by day they { had measured out a little of this against the cravings of their natural { appetites. who intended to own themselves in | obedience to some dream, reading or | word which had come to them. 'At | any price that I can pay, let me own | myself,' they said. And that price is | worth paying if you keep what yo i have bought. For the eternal ques- tion still is whether the profit of any | concession that a man makes to his tribe, against the light that is in him, outweights or justifies his dis- | regard of that light. A man may | apply his independence to what is | cover too late that he laboriously has made himself dependent on a mass of external conditions for the maintenance of which he sacrificed | himself. hole haberdashery of suc- cess and go to his grave a castaway. Some men hold that the risk is worth taking. Others do not. to these that I have spoken." UNDERSTANDINGONE ANOTHER. The Board of Trade banquet to the leading men of the county had for its object the fostering of great- er co-operation between the urban and rural communities of this dis- trict. The interests of the people hereabouts are largely the same, and, the greater the spirit of unity the better. When there was danger of the Eastern Dairy School not being rebuilt in Kingston, after its | destruction by fire, the leading men | of "the city and county co-operated with alacrity and by united effort the Ontario Government decided to retain the institution here. King- ston and Froutenac can assist each | othér in various ways and the '"'get- together" method is the best means of securing action. Lord Balfour declared in regard to the relations between the Allies and the United States that the results attained could never have been secured by documentary parleying. Face-to- face and heart-to-heart talk at the conference table yielded more re- \oults in five minutes than a year's correspondence. That is what is commonly known as the "get-to- gether" plan. | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorological Soclety, Tells How, Rainclouds and Rain. Dark clouds always suggest rain. en when there is nothing more city smoke, people carry them um- brelies or raincoats. There is ample Justification for this, for usually when the daytime sky becomes dark, rain or snow follows. Furthermore, rain seldom falls except from a dense cloud. Therefore, the rain- cloud which weather observers the world over cal nimbus is of this character, though not all dense clouds are nimbus. The nimbus cloud is produced chiefly by the expansional cooling of rising air, caused by the converging of air currents, by the upward de- flection caused by land barriers or barriers of°dense afr, or by cold air underrunning warm alr. The cool- ing which causes condensation often results, in part, from the mixing of warm alr with cold, but chiefly hy the expansion of warm air as ft rises. In these ways, nimbus clouds are formed, to pour out their con- tants as rain. A subdivision of the nimbus type is the fracto-nimbus," commonly called 'scud, a low, detached cloud, too thin and imist-like to produce 'rain, seén drifting bemeath the hea- 'ry nimbys at an elevation of from 300 to 1000 feet. Tt 1s caused by the turbulence of the surface wind cooled and moistened by the falling rain. On hill and mountain sides the nearby : saturated gm air in the woods and valleys is ap hy the cooler air high enough to form the valley steam clouds, fami- "' HE DAILY BR of the: "These were the men | called worldly advantage and dis- So he may be festooned | It is | IT SPATS. Clarence Ludlow Brownell, MA, Fellow Royal Geographical Soclety, London, England. In an article discussing reasons | various persons give for disliking New York City, which appeared in {the current issue of the American | Magazine, several individuals men- | tioned spats. { Spats! "I trust my son will sever | his connection with the company he f is with, if it is true, as you say, that | the manager wears spats," is the | purport of one note the writer of the | article records. Others were like this: | "1 shall transfer my account and | place it in some outside institution [if what you say about the president wearing white spats is correct." The writer himself made a hit | with his clientelle by confessing that | once he bought a pair of spats and | wore them along Fifth avenue for a | couple of blocks. He felt as though [his garters had slipped down and | were on fire. The coupes and taxis | shied as they came along side--or | he thought they shied, so he sneak- ed head down around a corner, drop- rr. ---------------------------- ped the spats in an ash can and put | on the lid. They cost ; he had owned them thirty minutes, but his relief was so great he glows | With satisfaction even now, though | years have passed. | Not New, | And what is the matter {spats? Why shouldn't men with and seven-fifty | | women wear cuffs round their ankies | as well as round their wrists? | Ankles need protection unless one wears boots--not top boots, but boots, or shoes high enough to cover the ankles. That spats serve no pur- Pose except as ornaments cannot be | the reason because they are of use-- they are more useful than ornamen- tal. No, the great middie west does not | despise spat wearers, because spats | are useless. Nor can it be because it believes they are a fad, a new bit of f Soppishuess, Spats aren't new. Spats | have been in vogue for generations. | Europeans have used them ever | since pantaloons appeared. Low shoes without ornaments made a place for spats. In' no city in the British Isles or on the continent would spats attract attention unless | the wearer provided them with bells or flash lights. Since spats have been in accept- ance as part of male and female wearing apparel in Europe for sev- eral generations, and since every- one on this elde of the Atlantic with any claim to citizenship (except the aborigines) who would not object were a man to wear nothing but spats) comes from the British Isles, the continent, directly or indirectly, why shoujd spats damn a city like New York? It is quite a city in its way, when one stops a moment to think abous | 1t--to really consider it. A boy or | a girl (not to mention twins) is born | there every three minutes the year round. They do not have to stay, for the means of leaving are capaci- ous. There are eighty piers for ocean going steamers and all the railways on the continent have some fort of New York connection; be- | sides this, there are bridges and tun- nels and ferry boats, elevated roads and street car surface lines by which conveyances depart from Manhattan Island continuously day and night. Yet the population is already 6,000,- 000, and is growing. It has 700 hools and 400 libraries, and one churches to supply the de- mands of all who wish to go--the {list fills twenty-five columns in the N.Y. World almanac. Apparently the citizens are both clean and thirsty, for they use more than 200,000,000 gallons of water a day. They live high, at least part of Ahem do part of the time, for there are eighty "sky scrapers" from twenty to fifty stories in height, or say from 250 feet to 792 feet 1 inch (The Woolworth) from sidewalk to peak, not counting four or five cel- lars, subcellars, ete. There is con- siderable temperature also; the thermometer showing at an altitude of 300 feet, 102 plus in summer, and minus thirteen in winter. On the July sidewalk, one can fry eggs. Single business buildings run in price from one million to thirty mil- lion dollars. Four of the insurance buildings cost over $10,000,000 a piece to build. The Woolworth, which is an building, cost $12,- 500,000. are $680,000,000 'worth of public parks with free air, 1,275 acres all told. Quite a little street traffic. By actual count 39,- 000 vehicles passed Columbus Circle in twelve{ hours. Apparently tax gatherers are busy and in spite of the wealthy dodgers, are fairly effic- fent, for on a 2.14 rate, they get about two billion dollars annually. sno. : round" Manhattan do a $7,000,000,000 every smallest 000. Total cl s since 18585, $3.670,000,000,000 (1920 figures); 15,000 police are on the payroll. In spite of this, the prosperous Gothamite will men and women of the ISH WHIG THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 19s re -- THE KEITH $22.50 BIBBY'S Tuxedos $40 wardrobe. THE BEST OVERCOATS THE RENFREW |THE CAMBRIDGE $29.50 3 Satin and English Yolo lined, saa, . somlortabls. Coat, Ail we fabrics -- handsomely tailored. trim----a wonder at the price, of any sleeve, . | with the famous the Goldwyn BIBBY'S It looks like a great season for the man who "'stepsout." That's why the Tuxedo is a necessary part of your Custom Tailoring fit, fine fabrics and skilled needle work-- You get them all. COMPLETE RANGE FULL DRESS TOGGERY $53.50 - OF VALUE | $35.00 Irish pure wool Coat worth regularly $45.00 any man's money. J Priced at $5.00. 180 PRINCESS STREET BROGUE OXFORDS : With the New Scotch Tongues i J Girls who lead in style everywhere are now 'wearing the new Scotch or Shawl Tongued Oxfords. : "perfect in fit," and depemdable in wearing qualities. The Ox. fords we show at this low price represent exceptional valud, rd Black and Brown. All sizes 23% to 7. NOTE.~--A splendid range of Calfskin Oxfords, in extra choice qualities, with Goodyear Welted Soles, now on display. "Come in and see these Shoes." S. J. MARTIN 00 "Correct in style," PHONE 2216. break established habits easily. Alsp it probably does not know about this scorn, for the average resident of Manhattan thinks of New Jersey as out west. He knows more about Europe, a great deal more,. than about Illinois or Indiana. Oddly enough, he knows California and Canada much better--and he will keep to his spats. : NOW IN STOCK ~~New Table Raisins. --=New Table Figs. ~=-New Dates. But spats will make their way' westward some day. Not in this generation or for this generation. The middle weeterner has not rea- soned about them. He has merely heard of them, or has seen them on ! actors and actresses, where, to him they appeared to be characteristic of the persons whom the stage folk sought to depict. These persons whom the artists made themselves up to be, are not of the sort the middle 'western man knows person- ally or at least intimately. He re- gards "them and anything character- istic of them with inquisitiveness and suspiclon--mostly suspicion. Spats come in for their share of the suspicion. Hence the scorn. -------------------- | That Bor 0 Bours By James W, Barton, M.D, The Iron in Your Blood. In reading the advertisement in the street car I was struck by the number which advised the use of certain remedies and foods because they contained iron. Now, I've no fault to find with these advertisements. They are not likely misstating facts, but' I Just wondered If you realized that irom is a real everyday necessity in your blood If you are to be strong and well. \ ti. | iron, po then do the vegetables which grow therein. All the green things which you see emerging from the ground are rich in the Same ele- ments of which your body is com- posed. And of these elements iron is one of the most important. It gives the blood the richness that enables # to repair and strengthen all the tissues of the body. Blood deficient in fron means weak anaemic blood, and a general wasting of the body White most foods contain some fron, a. good habit for you to es- tablish in your household would be something in the way of "greens" every day. Youngsters do not always take readily to lettuce, cabbage, spinach, carrots and so forth, but by a little careful handling you can arrange to have them appear for at least once a day anyhow. ' The idea that from enriches the blood has persisted for mahy years, and has its foundation on actual fact. : So get your iron daily. ---- : Beer Clubs Doomed. Victoria, . Nov. 22 --Proprietary beer clubs now operating all over British Columbia will be completely wipéd out by mew legislation to be introduced during the present ses- sion of the legislature, Hon. A. M. Manson, Attorney-General, announc- ed yesterday to. delegates of the Union of British Columbia munici- palitles who waifed upon Premier Oliver and members of the provine- fal government to discuss municipal affairs. J A -------- A man's life is of many flashing moments and yet one stream: a na- tion's flows through all'its citizens aad yet is more then they.--Rupert Brooke. : Toilet Soaps Highest Qualities--Lowest Prices--Stock Up Now, Olive Ol and Cucumber Oatmeal and Cream . 40c. doz. Castile Cakes ...... Boe. doz, Transparent Glycerine 75¢. doz. Round Bath Large Lemon Lavender = $1.00 Soothing Cream doz. Only one dozen of a kind to a customer, Hotel Frontenac Kingston's Leading '10te. Every room has running h. ¢ and eold water. One-half block from Raliwa; Statious and Steamboat Landings. 78 ACRES, one half mile from thriving village; good buildings; exceptionally weil' watered, good 1 t 40 acres under cul- 3,800. ACRES on leading road nine miles from Kingston, one mile from village; good Build: ings; about 100 acres under' tivation of good clay loam; or- e i plenty of wood for fuel, Price 0 50 We h a large list of farms for sale; some exceptionally good bargains. We have for rental one farm of 100 acres and another farm of 185 acres. cul- aa Real Estate and Insurance 58 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phones 322J and 1797J. OAL QUARTETTE 2'RE eaters in heat. WwW 3 Jou wast to get in ° touch the best coal that ever made a family out of relatives you should investigate the sort of fuel you up properly and you will like the way we deliver It.