In Mexico it must seem like old es. China has many titles of courtesy, iuding "President." Popular story, Dae: Reducing the tax on "earned" in- y small fry. The United States is ve miles out Any husband is justified in scorn- the intuition of the woman who for him. Civilization can progress just so ? ato lere good Europeans. An uncivilized land is one jch the criminal courts are not 'Far flung are both the battle line the bottle line off the New Eng- LH what he thought he knew at ol, but then they didn't know on A. Guild THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1028. i Poh Wing rou PUBLISH Ne CO., LIMITED geeress TELEPHONE AUTOMOBILES AND PROSPERITY. Col. J. Z. Fraser, president of the! U.F.0. Co-operative Company, was in a pessimistic mood when he de- livered his annual address to the shareholders of the company at the annual meeting held in Toronto. 1 Hardships on the farms, 'bank fail- ures, financial and business failures, occupied a large part of his ad-| dress, and he reached the climax by a strong condemnation of the place the automobile has taken in the life of the province. He even bile craze for the slow return being experienced by the province, and to say that he could see no\hope 'for a return to prosperity until this craze had righted itself. Col. Fraser used figures abun- dantly in proof of his assertion. Of | course, figures can be juggled to prove almost anything, and the statement that figures cannot lie has somewhat lost its force In view of the juggling of statistics by poli- ticians and others who wish to use them for their own advantage. 50 Speaking in regard to the automo- "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: St. Montreal King St. W, tor are published mame of the one of the best job in Canada. bile craze, Col. Fraser pointed out that in the year 1922, licenses were issued In Ontario to 210,000 pas- senger cars, 24,000 commercial cars, and 4,700 motor cyeles, Placing the average cost of operation and maintenance for a year at $400, he showed that this cost the province $94,000,000, Replacement costs he placed at fifteen per cent. on an average cost of $1,000 per ear, vintage of 1924: there was a German nation." puts it up to your conscience. d many a man poses as some- Bardbojed when he is merely now dry and wet twelve in There is a limit to the space wan be occupied by billboards. umelting pot can't change them 'good Canadians unless they in d in their work. coast as Christmas approaches. i may need bolts from the old to build a political machine, he doesn't need any nuts. @ great difference fis that ce once had the alliance at her | and now she has it on her| a general thing you can esti- the thickness of an employee's 'by the thinness of his ex- would increase the volume of if a man knew at twenty- -------- daddies denounced the dime in this age would take its a8 some scientists claim, the 'war is fought with electricity, t Obregon include the privi- putting down the revolt, it , of course. i aititicn of Wests is stout hen 3 308 Ww mm, he fail; when a mortal is i he wags bis tongue. t this sentence: "It isn't 'don't trust you," explained rchant, "'but-it's against our 0 sell on credit." to silk stockings before cot- such. high prices? the statement on 'forty- whieh meant a sum of $35,000,000. | These figures gave a sum of $129,- | 000,000 last year as the toll paid | in Ontario for the automobile craze. Then the figure juggling began. Col. Fraser" pointed out that the total value of Ontario's crops during the same year was $222,000,000, and claimed that $129,000,000 of this crop was spent in automobiles. It took, he said, all of Ontario's hay crop, all its oat erop and all the cattle gold or slaughtered in the province to pay ifs 1922 automo- bile bill. Then he wound up Ww claiming that this was the cause for the hardships on the farm, for many 'of the financial and business failures which occurred during the year. There may be a little justification in the claims put forward by Col. Fraser, but if he intended to utter a condemnation of those who had fallen victims to the automobile craze, then he was condemning most strongly those in his audience, the farmers of Ontario. In the de- partment ~f public highways report which has just been issued, the in- teresting information is given that the farmers headed the list of car- owners by a long way over any other class in the province. Of the passenger car licenses issued, 68,- 049 were issued to farmers. Trides- men come second in the list, with 37,027, and merchants are in third place with a total ot 17,834. 'The farmers of the province owned more than one-third of the passenger cars in the whole province, and had more than gouble the number of the next class of citizens. No one condemns the farmers for desiring to have automobiles in or- der to get around the country, but, | if the farm organization president is to place the blame of the poor conditions he sees upon the shoul- ders of the automobile owners, then he is placing the largest share of it upon the shoulders of the farmers themselves. It may have sounded to them as if Col. Fraser's speech were a condemnation of the weal- thy classes, but, in reality, he was speaking strongly against his own class. Incidentally, it would be in- teresting to know if he himself has been struck by the automobile craze, and possesses a car, or if he still rides around the" concession lines and side roads of his native town: ship of Burford behind the old-fash- joned. horse and buggy. MAN AND SOCIETY. Charon, says the Literary Digest, ferries no freight across the Styx. It 1s a wise man, we are told, who knows how to dispose of his accum- alated baggage, before he starts on his last journey. There are millions which, so to speak, never leave the family vault, On the other hand, some of the wealthy retarn to so- clety part of what they have gained by leaving bequests to philanthropy. Much wiser, says the Christmas Cen- tury, are those who do the distri- buting themselves. Andrew Carne- &le and John D. Rockefeller are mentioned as noteworthy in this re. spect. Mr, Carnegie gave away mil lions before he died, and Mr. Rocke- feller is distributing his millions to charities that cover the map. The task, he is reported to have said, is most difficult in the world. But Charles Proteus Steinmetz, who was one of the world's greatest mathe- maticlans and electric engineers when be died a short time ago, "Varougnt us 2 new suggestion.' He. had ample opportunity to accumu late wealth, but he proposed that ne mr Sie drew c eeloty mane: Ae requires for his immediate needs. man house and clothe and and his family; let him, went so far as to blame the automeo- | to | prosperity which he claimed was] the community, For the rest, let the | ¢ man take po thought; certainly | never Jet him waste himself in pil- ing up riches. What flows out above | his actual needs, let it. go back im- | it | { will produce for the public good | mediately and directly to where Cen tury, | This, says the Christian sitting on a Galilean hillside, heard one day. {labor {taroughout {that the eight hour day is a biess- | ling. THE MOHAMMEDAN WORLD. It is said that there are still peo- ple in many corners of the world | who have never seen the face of a white man. pity. Yet a parallel may be found even in such a country as Canada, for how many Kingstofi folk have | ever seen or addressed a Mohamme- | dan? This lack of contact cannot be accounted for by any dearth of Mo- | hammedans, for according to the | most recent reliable estimate they | number some 235,000,000, Of these almost one-half are fellow citizens or subjects within the British Em- pire. Throughout the entire world there are, in fact, only some 33, | 000,000 who are not under a West-' ern power. The Turks form less ' than 3 per cent. of the Moslem ! world, yet they are its leading na- tion because of their military prow- | ess and historic associations which | entitle them to appoint the Sheik-ul- Islam, who is the head of all the faith. In his keeping is the green flag which is some day to lead the | united armies of Islam. fo the final | overthrow, of Christendom. That this glorigus dream should ever be attained" seems unthinkable--Loth- | rop Stoddard and shuddering Cook' A tourists notwithstanding. For the | Mohammedan World is now such a vast, unwieldly bulk that 'it could | not be moved without its falling to pieces; and against them would be a Christendom armed to the teeth and ready, alas, to fight them on their own level. In the Mohammedan world only | five out of every hundred can read. But the important fact is that after | static centuries of illiteracy there is |! a sharp and amazing increase in the | numbers of those who are learning. Each generation now will see the numbers of literates double and treble, and Moslem thought and lite will be profoundly altered as a result, But the direction or scope of that change depends on the gua- lity of the literature which inepires | it, and here seems to be the real challenge of the Mohammedan to the | Christiad world. By James W, Barton, M.D, Turn Off The Power. You are passing through a fac- tory when the foreman stops sud- denly. On asking him the reason he says, "That's an unsusual noise I hear." After listening carefully he finds out about where the trouble is and immediately he shuts off the power, Why? Because with the power of no further damage can be done to the machinery. Then, with the power off, necessary repairs are done. Sometimes with machinery, some grease has got on a belt, perhaps some part is in need of grease or ofl. Similarly with that body of yours; something goes wrong. Perhaps your liver becomes clog- ged, or the kidn are not filtering the blood properly. Well, what about it? Why should you use the same sense as yon would with machinery and turn off the power. What do I mean? That your power supply comes from only one source and that is from the food you eat. Therefore if anything goes wrong your first thought should be to cut off food at once. More food, more energy at this time, ig just the same as running the machinery when some parts are in need of repair. Further, with your organs con- gested your first plan is to get rid of the wastes in the system. £ Thus a purge, and injection into lower intestine( a good.sweat by the skin, will all help to rid the system --the blood--of this excess waste. And so if your physician sug- gests that a day or a couple of days you are to eat no food what- ever, don't disobey, mor allow a kindly disposed friend to smuggle you some dainty. . That body of yours will earry along nicely without added fuel or power. This working without fuel enables it to gradually rid itself of poisons and it ean then take on fresh mourishifig food with which the Surely they deserve our | iporations in the American |lic. She has found that eight hours | imakes better citizens. {distinct {people {hours would be to afford time _ {in gardening. creased, and as many saloons are French Tendencies. Clarence Ludiow Brownell, MA, Feliow Royal Geographical Soclety, London, England. While Hugo Stinnes is telling the | { sounds almost l%e the revolutionary | Germans that they must go back to] proposals that a erowd of peasanis, fthe ten and twelve hour day -- re. | |gardle.s of the teach, ngs of ail mod- ern 'psychoiogists--the minister in Wrance is rhe French France hus tried it for four years. She would, not go back to tae | twelve hour day so popular with eor- Repub- The change has been a the working weys,. some of them unexpected. One of the results contradicts the predic- tions of the doubters emphatically. French capitalists, |lke tho.e in the American Republic, declared | ten hours boon to in several from {that the shops were the best places | ifor Men were To recuce in| !which to waste their wages. In France, which is wet, the doubters (said that the reduction meant two more hours in the saloons. the men to be in. safer when at work. Less Drinking Now. That was four years ago. In- stead of two hours more in" the drinking places, what has really hap- pened? Two thousand saloons in| Paris alone have gone out of busi- ness. Perhaps it would be more ac- curate to say that the business has gone out of them, Furthermore, in northern France, the industrial! region, where the factories and the mines support the population, and the conditions of living promote thirst, the lLquor business has fall- | en off ten per cent. One tity, Rou- | baix, near Lille, has lost 600 sal-| oons. Evidently the 'extra two hours in wine rooms" did not even | tuate. If there had been laws af- {fecting these 600 :aloons, making access to them difficult, they might | {not have died through neglect. | Where did the extra hours go, if | ot to the saloons? The minister | lot labor has figures to show. Work- | ingmen's commutation tickets out af! {Paris for the week-end have increas. | led 2,000,000. Formerly these two | {million people remained in town. Now they go to the country, There are special train services for them | each Saturday afternoon and early {Monday morning, Going into the health. It meals better | {through the week, and a output. It also means gardens. | Men and women in France® oe country means WOrK | greater | They are keen own personally a piece or ground to cultivate. If they cannot buy, they will rent r they will join a com. munity garden. There used to be 18,000 of these community plots. now there are more than 200,000, all busy producing food. A French. | man and his wife can feed the fam- fly on the produce of a garden! They understand the business. It is in the blood. It is one of the reasons why France is self-support- ing, As the Suuor business has = de- out of business, drunkepess Is de. | cidedly on the wane, and with the waning of drunkene:s goes the dis- orderly conduct that accompanies it. There is less crime now.' The police have led to do. Eventually, they will be merely ornamental. But gardening is not the only occupation or iaterest of those who now have an extra two hours. afi- letic clubs are expanding ana www clubs are organizing. Outdoor sports are very popular. Working men who formerly had no time for games in the open air are now out every day. This means much for the present generation, and more for the generation soon to come. ° It means an improvement in. the birth rate that has worried the gov. ernment these many years--des- pite the prizes and awards of var- fous kinds that the French repub- lic has offered for large families. Fresh air and plenty of it will be more avail than medals and pen- sions and pictures in the Paris pap- ers. Movies Hit Hard. The open air life has gained tre- ny. usly under the eight hour and so have the schools, es- pecially those devoted to technical and to vocational instruction. The professional courses that furnish in. struction in all the trades that con- cern building have increased more than fifty per cent. A youth may go as far as he likes. He may be- come a master builder and an ar- chitect, The doubled attendance of 1919 came Into effect. The will on the part of the working men was always there, but ten hours im the shops and mills did not leave enough time. The zov- ernment is studying, too. It ws oe lighted with the observed results, and seeks to turther the good work. Parliament has Wirected the minis vocational schools have since the law to bring you up to your usual Hl of | proclaiming | ltepuoiic | { New Hats New Shirts Y'S i y | ~ Trading Here | RR RSC IIIS We're not a Bank, but you can Save quite a few Dollars by All New Goods at Greatly Reduced Price New Hats SEE OUR NEW OVERCOATS The Trowler, the Hartley, The Windsor The absolutely new style Over- coats--English Chinchilla and Whitney Cloths. $35, $40, BLUE SEE OUR on VALUE $19.50 ULSTERS Men's and Young Men's styles. Our $25.00 ULSTERS AND OVERCOATS are wonders at the price. 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