| Ri------_--_ _- R ld band 1 : EE _ LTH Le 50 BRAR RYE Te I and Semi-Weekly Wb; WHIG PUBLISHIN CO., LIMITED - .. President ses «.. Editor and, mn aging-Director | TELEPHONE h nge, connecting all nts . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: © (Dally Edition) year In eity & EMiott , n A. Gut arctionaboreasene the NO NEED FOR A CHANGE. The result of the Halifax by-elec- tion this week has given the Conser- vative press something .to about--the first crow it has had in two years. won all by-elections till the Halifax event, and for purely selfish and sec- ll Bluenose centre saw fit to turn down the government candidate. Now, | because the government has one less | than the combined vote of the Tories | and the Progressives, the { Journal | should resign. Ottawa thinks = the The Journal says: "A combined vote of Progressives and Conservatives at the opening of | parliament would drive this minis- | try from power. | not be given. Yet, that vote will because of the political cowardice of a minority of Progressives -- a cowardice which puts place before principle." Ot course the vote will not be given. Why should it be? What has the Conservative party to offer? The Tories were driven from power Just two years ago because they had 00 | failed the people and things were Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash .. vee 'year, to United States 3 "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: Onider, 22 St. John St, Monutr s W. Thompson 100 King St, A Torento, Letters to the Editor are published | over the Actual mame of the . Attached is ome of the best job Mice; printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations the job unfinished. "The Stillman case is bobbing up | mn. If it isn't one trouble, it's er, | Some self-made men leave parts | | | Another advantage in being com- | * mon is that you can eat in the kit- | "glen where it's warm. Another way to make time pass Quickly for jail inmates would be install taxi meters in the cells, | i When a man acts that way after | 8 friendly slap on the back, you | 'can't tell whether it's a boil or. dig-{ | | Friends are those persons who, en you die, use the money they OWe you to buy flowers for the fun- | | It won't surprise us If McAdsH | supported by his father-in-law, ® Know a lot of fellows who are that fix, . ~ We liked 'the old-fashioned hero- ine whose sex was so appealing that the author didn't have to talk about | it much, A------------------ Naughty things shock the pure in| Beart and bore the hard-boiled. Only the middle class gets that delightful | thrill. v ~ Increase of divorces should sur-| prise nobody. Among other things | that ean be opened with a can open- #r is an argument. . No wonder the farmer looks tired. | must be a great effort to look woe- | 'Begone enough to justify the sympa- he gets. It's a funny civilization that kills all the birds and then wonders rly why Providence afflicts it insects. Washington has proofs that Ger- many deliberately ordered the sink- Bg of the Lusitania. Without bf, few had doubts. § The whitecollar man struggling I0 make ends meet must be greatly red by Babson's statement that rity will continue, 'Correct this sentence: 'John, '* said the wife, after they had 'married ten years, "you should- p on buying roses for me." -------- woman who does her own ing hassone consolation . She has to sleep in a head harness pduce the number of her chins. rominent reformer has been for speeding. Poor chap. scheduled to make a speech mess, and he was late. - s year Mr. Ford will turn out ne millionth car. These, plac- to end, would reach almost obscurity to the White House. this sentence: "I often sit ople who read sub-titles said he, "but I have never to slay a fellow mortal." "that have not ex- : that will cure ing" is alleged to red. But it will to those who want an | "The Whisper of Death." going to the dogs. It has taken the King Government some time to get the country on its legs again, just 1! 88 it took the Laurier Government time after 1896 to repair the dam- age done by Tory rule of the pre- ceding years. Canada today is far better off under the King Govern- ment than it was two vears ago under the Meighen regime Even our local contemporary--a Meighen organ has strongly condemned If a gen- crow | The King Government | wad el government | | It will not be given | { IHE DAILY BRITI "So "the telephone. oid order (ment tothe constitution, a federal changeth.' FARMERS IN POLITICS. Considerable importance can | attached to the declaration of the | Canadian" Council of Agriculture to { the effect that in future they wiil opottiey | political groups and part | announcement is doubly i {to Ontario in view of the fact that | the declaration has besn prepared | for submission to the ananal con- vention of the provincial U. F. O. [to be held in Torento tais month. { The U.F.O, it is admitted, is fac- [ius a situation which may very easl- gave the amazing order and all the { I¥ result in its entire elimination | + | ; . { world knows how the Brigade car- from the political fleld in this pro- | ried the order out. Ninety-nine per vince. That is a matter which is to be definitely settled at the econ-| vention, and with the declaration of | the Canadian Council of Agriculture | before them, there is avery possgi- bility that the U.F.Q. delegatis will | view the whole situation in the same | light as the bigger organizaticn, and {cut themselves free entirely from active participation in nolitics as a party. : The decision made by the Cana- | | dian Council! of Agriculture can only | have been prompted by one thought, {the thought that the Hort of the! farmer organizations to secure what | they are pleased to term their rights by separate political action, and by the formation of a third political | party or group, has admittedly fail- fed. When the U.F.O. and the other farmers' organizations throughout Canada made the jump into politics, and gained sensational successes, it | and fuel regulation. be | . y Saif 8 This teresting we Tadepenaent Clarence Ludlow Brownell, M.A. Fellow Royal Geographical Society, -ondon, England. .- - The most,famous charge in mili- tary history--and the most futile-- still a mystery. The British the way of an explanation. Someone Only six individuals returned. 'Magnificent !" exclaimed a It was splendid, but useless, insgo- far as it affected the Russians. been an inspiration, but the British | government gave no gpecial pensions to the survivors. They became wards of the state eventuw(y, and lived at Chelsea, London. None of them bragged about obeying orders, but each must have often wondered | "why?" Survivor Talks at 88. | It is almost seventy years since the charge. A citizen of Granda Rapids, Michigan, Ellis T. Cutting, | remembers it well. He should. He | was one of the six who came back. He tells" what he knows and sug- gests that what he does not know may remain unknown for a censider- able time---till the Day of Judgment, that at probably. SH | department and secretary of educa- | { tion, a road and raforestation policy | THE NOBLE 600. {| the charge of the Light Brigade, is | War | Office has not published anything in | cent. of the men died in that charge. | French officer, "but it 1s not war." | It has created a great glory and has | eral election were.to take place next | spring the Meighen party would land | in the same hole as the British | electorate has thrown the Baldwin | was thought last the far- mers had found the panacea for all their troubles. Their experience, | | for officer was Lord Raglan. According to Cutting, Lord Lucan commanded the Brigade. His super- | Cut- | considered sufficient to | ing a cable line across the Atlantic | between Britain and America. The English Channel, yet dhe laying' ot LH120.000 ton cable which was to be administration, for the middle and | laboring classes and the will continue to vote against party leaders who lick the hand of | the Big Interests. the tions. ' | THE ATLANTIC A new .Franco-American said to be the longest in the worla, was recently landed at Havre. Three or four Ilfnes in the newspapers wera tell the | story, so commonplace has trans. | atlantic telegraph communication | become, Sixty years ago, when the first Atlantic cable was laid, the| man who accomplished the feat re- | ceived a gold medal from Congress, | with the thanks of the American nation, and was hailed by John Bright as the Columbus of modern times. To us this may seem extravagant Praise. But most likely Bright had in mind the difficulties encountered by Field, who faced them with an unyielding perseverance rivalling that of the discoverer of America. In 1854 Cyrus W. Field gave up a prosperous manufacturing bust- ness to promote the scheme of carry- CABLE, enterprise was very uncertain. Al- though there were already a num- ber of submarine telegraph lines in operation, notably one across the one across the broad, deep Atlantle was a very different proposition. Na- ture, however, had provided an aid to the undertaking in the form of a fine, broad, high plateau extending across the ocean floor between New- foundland and Ireland. This furn- ished a level bed, not too deep for the line to rest upon. During the next twelve years var- fous attempts were made. to lay the cable. After a number of failures, success seemed to have been at- tained. An American battleship took half the cable on board, a British battleship took the other half, the two ships sailed out to mid-ocean, and then one headed for each con- tinent, paying out the line as they went. The cable was safely landed at both ends, and worked nicely for a few weeks. Then it refused to transmit any more messages. The cause of its failure could only be surmised, and in the absence of de: finite information cartoonists jocose- ly depicted enormous fishes gnawing it through. In spite of this discouragement Field persevered in his attempts. In 1865 the 'Great Eastern" was pressed into service, This ship, which has become a sort of legend, was the wonder vessel of the day, and the largest ever built at that time. She had proved to be a white elephant, eating up money for running ex- penses and repairs. However, when a ship was needed to carry the great laid, the "Great Eastern" was pro- nounced to be just the thing. Her first attempt was another failure; twelve hundred miles of the necessary two thousand had been laid doyn, when the cable was broken by an unexpected roll of the great ship. But the next year Suc- cess was finally atfained, and there was much rejoicing on both sides of the Atlantic. 3 _ Radio developments are now throwifig the older form of com- Aas x paper that Beh BR th ing of the Franco-American cable l farmers | Ing of prosperity and better condi- cable, | leaders admit, defeat by the lead- | ers themselves. however, has shown them that poli- | tical action is helpless in the bring- ting saw Captain Nolan, aid to Lord Raglan, deliver a note to Lord Lu- can. The Brigade had been rest- | ing opposite the Russians, who had entrenched themselves on the hill-| side across the valley. There were several squadrons of Russian cavalry behind the fortifications. There were still more batteries on the sides | | to resist flank attacks. A direct | charge of a single brigade against | such a position was folly--practic- | That many of them are sat- | isfled that this is so was shown | the last provincial election when the U.F.0. government was over whelm- ingly, defeated, and, as the party At the convention = this month, | three alternative propositions are | ally insanity. to be submitted to the delegates. The| However, Lucan ordered a charge, | first declares for a complete elimina~ {and down "into the valley of death | tion of politics from the organiza- | rode the six hundred." Both Lucan | tion, for digging it out,, root, stalk | 8nd Nolan were apparently at sea as | and branch, from the U.F.O. The | to the purpose of the attack. Nolan | second calls for a partial elimina | saw this after the charge began and | hh ; 7 : | rode out ahead as though to offer | tion of politics, leavipg the riding | a suggestion to Lucan. He did not directors and members free to act | reach him for he was the first to as they see fit, but barring the | fa]l. The opening fire of the Rus- central office officials from taking | gians got him. any part in politics on behalf of a| "Onward they rode"--and soon U.F.0. party. The third policy com- | the heavy artillery of the British | ad! y fl and then the Lng. before the convention is.the. fa. |8tarted!in their tra mous policy of Premier Drury, which | French Chasseurs. Heavy, Brigade, | Light Brigade, Chasseurs, and Rus- calls for making the U.F.O. the basis Lish oe inside the fortifications for a larger party, embracing "all | together 'when the" recall sounded, men of like ideals who are tired of and the French and -British with- the two old parties." drew. When these questions are before| The Light" and the Heavy came the convention, the declaration of | back together. Lord Cardigan, who the Canadian Council of Agriculture | had led the Light Brigade, had lost will carry much weight. As it is, | 594 of his 600 men. As the "heav- | "" i y ite as em- many of the U.F.O. leaders are con- | les" were 10 the-charge Julie vinced that their day as a political | heroes equally. The public held them force in Ontario is gone, and that | in the same regard. They were often their interests will be best served by | inspected by visitors at Chelsea who Gevoting their energles to the bufld-| regarded them with veneration. ing up of their commercial, educa-| It may be that of all who went tional and social organization, which | down into the valley and met the was the original idea on which the | Bamisny ou He Sup Se on ne movement was founded. The result | en Tats i only man alive. of this would undeubtedly be of be- | He is in good health, though now nefit to the province, for it would in his eighty-eighth year. He is still mean getting back 'to stability wondering why it happened. in government, without the uncer- "I saw the expression on Lord tain element of a third group in Lucan's face when he read the note. politics, and without the situation |I hear him ask Captain Nolan if he of a minority group controlling the | could amplify the message. I saw affairs of the province or the coun- the Captain point down into the val- try simply because they happened to | le¥ and then ride away. Later, I saw hold the balance of power. phatically as the others, they were him topple off his horse at the first Russian's fire," says Cutting. The PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS. President Coolidge in his message to the sixty-eighth congress and his first message to any congress has apparently 'sought to express the public will on those problems ana nratters most attracting the public concern. The message is more an outline of legislative ends than a suggestion of ways of attaining thost desideratums. With the pos- sible exception of the Mellon tax reduction plan, the president has of: fered no cutes but has diagnosed many national ills, actual or {magined. Two things the president has put up to congress preemptorily. He "does not favor a bonus," and the "league of nations is a closed in- cident." Congress knows his attl. tude on these questions and it is presumed recognizes the power of veto at the command of the chief executive. Aside from these two is- sues congress must proceed on its own initiative toward a goal fixed by the president, but obliged to build its pwn road and plot lis own route to that destination. President Coo- lidga, generally speaking, has éx- pressed nothing more than the opin- ion of the majority in his message. It is to be hoped that congress in its selection of ways and means for the enforcement of the executive programme may as well observe an? follow the public will. The president's message kas not avoided the more polemical and an- Raglan Repudiates Charge. Furthermore, the lone survivor declares that there was an angry dis- cussion later between Lord Raglan and Lord Lucan. Soldiers standing fifty feet away could hear the words distinctly. It was evident that Rag- lan was in a rage and that Lucan was bitter over the useless sacrifice of the picked men of the British army. Raglan denied emphatically that he had written any such order, and demanded an explanation of the tremendous folly of the attack. Lu- can showed the note to Raglan, say- ing "Captain Nolan, your aide, gave me this, and said it meant that I was to send the Brigade across the val- ley against {hie Russian position." "I did not write that! It is not my order!" roared Raglan. "Only a fool could have done it!" and off he rode. "Who gave Nolan the order?" is Ellis Cutting's query. "Nolan is dead--and the War Office is dumb." 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As you know your whole enjoy. | ment of the picture is in your mind or brain, and can only be placea there by those special organs--the | eyes. | But this flickering has now been | practically overcome, and there is | thus less danger from that stand-| point. | Also many theatres now have in- | direot lighting and there is no glare. | Now as you are likely to go from | time to time perhaps one or two sug-, gestions may be of help. i Wtf you ean choose you'own seat, | try and get as near the centre of the theatre as possible. Fortunately, in most theatres there is a platform and an orchestra pit, and you are not too near the screen. Should you get into' a small theatre try and sit near the back. Closer than twenty feet from the screen js hard on the eyes. In fact the further back you sit the better. One of the best things about it ah however, is that many of the theatres now have other features than the pictures, and thus the eyes got a chance to rest. 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