BRITISH WHIG OVE YEAR. { confectionery is centred largely in jie cn RE Le, ah : Ny and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED | Ohio, | in, Massachusetts, the confectionery | business is one of the larger indas- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIGC WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1923 MILIJONS IN CANDY. The importance of candy in the diet of the people is shown in a statement on' the confectionery in- dustry Issued by the Federal Bank which ranks it with farming; wool- len dnd shoe industries, in the Unit. The mwauisets pec woof the statés of New York, Iiinots, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and In New England, especially tries. Ninety per cent. of the out- put is shipped out to other states and as sales are reported to exceed those of 1922, the total value of the Massachusetis product alone is esti- mated this year at $50,000,000. An increase in the comsumption of sugar was experienced after the advent of prohibition in Canada, and it Is unlikely that the increase in the demand for confectionery in the United States is due to the same cause. | BUSINESS STILL GROWING, There is no note of any decline in $4.00] business in the United States, but Bducation pays everybody but the Whatever the world may be com- to, it isn't ite senses. 'Specialist: One who has learned } multiply the bill by six. The flapper says: "Live fast, die , and make a good-looking " good citizen is one who breaks laws except those you don't be- in. -- ing cheerfully is simply the art dying magnificently to soothe vanity, us is a man who does his in private, where you can't see eat. 3) friends are those who know itimately and wonder how you ge to get by. is made of dust; and if he remain dry in this moral age, ¢ is mud. doubtful of many things, but one's seif---such is the of success, men's motto: "Lead us not ° tion, but tell us where it we'll find it." woman's secret society has been bd in the United States. It ds impossible, AE did not resort to make-up. is but the functioning of that makes a man eager his fellows. 'bribe a child to be virtuous 'be good for mothing er fit $ood-for-nothing, of commercialism means are a Young Intellectual, or nest is feathered. is a place where a ser- al lesder cr an favalid. on the other hand there is a steady increase in the volume of traffic as shown by the figures on freight load- 1) Ings for the week ended Dec. Sth as announced by the American Rall- way Association, These figures on freight loadings are an infallible in- dication of the trend in business and they are generally reflected in Can- ada as shown by the magnificent results in the November statement on the operation of the Canadian National Lines, when: the net earn- ings were $4,681,318. The gross earnings were $24,200,223, an in- crease of $689,679 over the month of November, 1922, At the same time operating costs decreased $1,- 942,630. As showing the phenome- nal increase in business throughout Canada the net earnings for t! eleven months ending Nov. 30th were $16,602,603, as compared with $5,772,116 for the correspoding period last year, an increase of $10,830,487, or 188 per cent. This is a wonderful statement and fully justifies the prediction of Sir Henry Thornton that by the end of the next three years, the publicly owned raliways will cease to be a burden to the people of Canada. The merchadise trade is brisk throughout the United States as well as Canada, but there was a decline in coal loadings, coke and grain. Freight loadings for the week end- Ing Dec. 8th totalled 918,774 cars, an increase of 78,478 cars over the previous week, and an increase of 4,600 cars over the corresponding week of 1923. The loadings for the year were 47,422,760 as against 40,797,978 in 1922, and 37,401,923 in 1921, The statement adds: '"Merchar- dise "and miscellaneous loadings, generally considered the criterion of business conditions throughout the country, showed a decided gain." It is interesting to know that the highest record in the history of rail. way trafic was recorded in the last week of September of this year, when the freight loadings were 1,- 097,274 cars. The Canadian National Lines are getting their share of the business, and when we consider the increase in the net revenue over that of last year we must be convinced that it is due to a substantial gain in busi- ness genarally as well as to this year's wheat crop in the prairie pro. vinoces. All of this must have the effect of Increasing optimism in the people everywhere. It is confidence' that ereates business and the volume of lway trafic shows conclusively that this confidence is now dominat- ing business. i, RL i. TRANSPLANTING OLD ENGLISH i CHURCHES. The Agent-General for Tasmania has come forward with what appears to be an. ingenious solution for a thorny topic which has been agitat- ing 'ecclesiastical and artistic circles in London, England, for the past In #he "City," which is now apcial section 'of the metro- polis, are many exquisite but heg- lected church edifices. The genera- , | tions which once thronged them are long since dead and this age has converted the district into an almost tenantless wilderness of shop and ang office buildings. Yet each of these all but empty places of worship is maintained by grants, to 'the conse- detriment of more vital work, the benefit of a few dozen ad- most of whom have to porting the stones, marked for re- erection, to Brisbane, Melbourne, Cape Town or Torohto? The work of the great masters would thus be preserved, tbe usefulness of these buildings restored and the senti- | mental, historic and religious ties 'between the -Mother-Country and. [ the Dominions much strengthened. | NEWSPAPER LOSSES. to the U.F.O. annual gathering, the Farmers' Sun, the official organ of the farmers and a highly creditable exponent of agricultural affairs and the latest news of the day, has been published at a loss aggregating $15,- 000 during the last fifteen months. It hopes to make a better showing by publishing twice a week instead of three times, but that is not at all certain. Not many newspapers, declares the Brockville Times, could stand such a loss as that of the Sun's for long, but it ig a fact that some of the best of them have been having, and are having, their troubles these days. For that reason « number, of them have been forced to the wall, and others have given up before it was too late. High costs are hard on the publishers, and it cannot be too strongly impressed upon people who are so frequently impelled to ask favors of the newspaper publishers that they require all the revenue possible tc enable them to offset in- creased costs. If this fact was kept in mind there would be fewer re- quests of the newspapers to insert straight advertisements for nothing, and to boost affairs that are in every respect money-makers. It isn't easy to refuse, but it has to be done if newspapers are to live, The sooner people understand the situation the better. : PRESS COMMENT British Money Did It, The proposed substantial redue- tion of the United States income tax is said to have been made possible by British money. It. is fine to feel that we have not waged the Peace in vain.--London Punch. The Mditing Pot. There are about as many cosored children as Japanese in the Los An- geles public schools and their pum- bers are increasing fast, yet nobody is worrying about it, or trying to draw the color line. As a great community we must house meny peoples of many races and not only make the best of it, but be proud of it.--Los Angeles Times. -- Watch Russia's Wheat Beit. It will be interesting to see how much of the European grain mark- et wil be left for our grain growers by the time our State De grain belt in the world is in South- ern Russia; that it fs growing crops which are steadily increasing wm acreage, while our own are decreas. ing, and that these crops are being steadily pushed from Russia at ex- tremely Jow prices into the markets of Europe.--Boston Globe. Slow It is wise to remember that even ROW We are only, in the matter of sanitation, where the Romans left off. They, of course, inherited the work of many another race. But when their organizing power fell, the great cities of their Empire had each its sewers and its water sup- ply. Then Europe destroyed those ped : ib h) 5 : § : ils partment discovers that the greatest |: DIAMONDS. Clarence Ludlow Brownell, MA. Fellow Roysl Geographical Soclety, London, England, Should any reader have a handful of six carat rubies, the clear sort that appears on dealers' lists as pigeon | blood, it might be well to hold them, According to a report submitted | as the market value is rising, and the stones will be worth twice as much presently. They are now not much more than $100,000 a piece. Hold them another twelve months and appropriate the increment. Rubies are coming into greater favor--not that any one ever dislik. ed them, particularly or deliberately, and persistently refused them when an eastern potentate pressed a peck or two upon one. They have never been tabu, for instance, like pork in the eyes of the chosen people,"oY all manner of animal tissue in the minds of those who live on beans. But they have not had the same ir- resistible charms, the same .seduc- tiveness that diamonds possess. Two Billions Spent. One reads of diamond robberies frequently, but never of ruby rob- bers, pearl pickers, saphire swipers, garnet grabbers, moonstone maraud- ers, agate acquirers, lapis-lazuli lift- ers, turquoise toters, and so forth. Indications suggest that changes are not in the remote future, but near at hand. Possessors of pigeon blood spgcimens should seek the safety vaults in their banks and fill their drawers before these ruby robbers arrive. In the meantime, watch your dia- monds! The demand for them is tre- mendous, and behind this demand there is often a gun--an automatic that will shoot you through and through until your clothing is a sight and you are forced to give up your gems and spend a considerable sum for a tailor, an undertaker, or hoth. Diamonds have been selling at good prices for at least-fifty years. In United States the ostentatious have been buying them to attract at- tention to themselves, to the amount of two billion dollars. In marks, that would mean the rest of this column full of figures. Two billion dollars for personal adornment looks like '"'advertising" doesn't it? That is exactly what it is, for excepting to cut glass with, what is the use of a diamond? It is hard to get, and it sparkles, neither of which attributes or entitles it to registration under the word service. It puts it rather under the caption vanity. It affords opportunity to those who love to be stared at (and glared at) to sit in the glare of cheap but costly publicity. The prayer of these dupes is "give us this day our daily diamonds." And. surely the prayer is asWered.: The democratic simplicity of the largest republic on earth glistens Increas- ingly at the rate of $50,000,000 or more. Sparkling stones, pure car- bon the chemists say, come to United States at that annual figure. For 'the majority of individuals, $50,000,000 would brighten the days sufficiently. They could do without the carbon crystals and the display, ostentation and advertisement. They could use the money in good works, use it usefully in providing oppor tunities for self-held which so seldom come in their days to many persons who are worthy. The reward for such expenditure, however, is said to await entrance to another world and seldom attracts the limelight here, but be that as it may, diamond dealers report good business. They obtained $67,000,000 from diamonds in return. This in- dicates prosperity as to business af- fairs if not in social service. It may not be a yard stick by which to meas- ure culture, or intellectualism, or scientific or literary achievement, but it surely spells commercial ac- tivity. x mi In fact, Sir Thomas Cullfman, who presided at a meeting of diamond diggers recently, mentioned Ameri- ca as the country that kept the busi- ness from falling. The de Beers mines had not been operating for a Year, Bir Thomas ated out; im- mense quantities of hoarded gems had come upon the market from Sizes 14 to | 7--to That Body of Pours By James W, Barton, MD, , The Sudden Pain. You may sometime get a sudden pain in the region of the heart, and you have to hold yourself in the one position or the pain becomes much worse, » Your doctor explains to you that there is no heart trouble and like wise that there is no gas in the stom- ach pressing up against the heart. Perhaps the pain is on the other side of the chest and you bend over to that side to relieve the pain, It looks very much like pleurisy. Per- haps the pain strikes you in the lower part of the back, and you have to remain quiet to allay the pain. Sometimes the pain is between the shoulder blades, or even in the back of the neck. You see you are not really sick. Now what's the matter? Well, just as you can have a pain in the nerves and have neuralgia, so also can you have a pain in the muscles which is called myalgia. It was formerly called muscular rheu- matism, because so many people with rheumatism of joints also had this rheumatism of pain in the mus- cles also. . And the cause? Usually exposure to wet or cold besides the other conditions which cause the ordinary rheumatism. That is bad teeth, bad tonsils, or constipa- tion. ' This exposure simply gives Laese things a better chance to get busy. Your own resisting powers are part- ly paralyzed as it were by the cold and dampness. 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