ETP ie % ponmin 6 . 2 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THURSDAY, JANUARY S¢, 1984. , THE BRITISH WHIG 9187 YEAR. i | Ud INE |] blished Datly nd Semi-Weekly b, mE BRITS WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED & G. Elllott ........,....., Presidemt Leman A. Guild TELEPHONE Private Exchange, connecting all departments ... ces 243 BUBSCRIFTION RATES: : eft, } One year in OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ¥F, Calder, 22 St. Joha St, Moutreal ¥. W. Thompson 0 King St. W,, Toronto. Letters to the Kditor are published only over the actual mame of the writer. 5 b i 3 "XT Attached 1a one of the best job printing offices in Canadas, The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations A AA "One of the good and useful things - you can get too much of is self re- spect. The most popular roadhouse, however, is a little shack built on a Jiney chassis. The rebels in Mexico now control everything except the capital and the situation. No man need be a failure. Suc- oess is just a matter of picking out a job your size. : . A man isn't really old until he be- gins to talk about how severe the winters used to be. It's a case of real love if he can get the same thrill'when he hugs her now, fur coat and all, At thirteen he is humble because is ignorant. At eighty he is Bumble because he is wise. "Protection" may mean tariff then it may mean that you won't Be raided 'without. warning. A man isn't necessarily: progres- because he wishes to try every fool scheme anybody suggests. - Correct this sentence: "Don't urge me, please," sald the white-haired lady; "I'm getting too old to dance." "You can't attain the upper class 'without culture or a successful trip from the Bahamas. It may be all right to talk about weather, however, if you have a clent vocabulary to do it jus- No man is prejudiced against cap- ftal. He is but prejudiced against "dhe sqheme that permits the other fellow to have ft. You can't blame the girl, how- over, if she hears her proud mamma felling what a whiz .she would be in he movies. ar An experienced wife is one who Keeps still and provides noble ra- tions when her husband has a pout- ing spell 'When the bank robber goes to 'Work in Germany he takes two it trains and a regiment of or trucks with him. § a mother says horrid men fhter, she may be either worry- or bragging. ------ rrect this gemtence: "The chil- soiled that book I borrowed," he, "and here is a new copy I for you." X A -- isis oes. {Ings and queens are fast 'disap. ring. The question naturally as to what cats will look at foverbs it royalty disappears al- sani. L Western exchange informs us the wild west bandit has not from existence--he has moved east. Wa might recl- 6 by admitting that the old h confidence man now plys le in the west. ene OLD DREAMS COME TRUE. The touchstone has been discover- od, Like the old objective of the which baser metals might be turned into gold, for ages has been sought the magical divining rod that would reveal from the surface of the earth the spots where lay buried treasure of ore of this and that kind. Now synthetic processes are said to have been developed whereby base metals can be transmuted into geld; Japanese dave found a way to "make" pearls, natural pearls so fine and nearly perfect as to revolutionize the pearl market of the world. And now an electric device has been invented, which located under- ground deposits of various kinds of desirable ores, The electrical appar- atus is not the work of an impracti- cal dreamer. A director of the Am- erican Bureau of Mines, after tests iin' Arizona, has applied for a patent on the invention, and it is said that its future usefulness in finding hid- den treasures, im the form of de- 'has been assured. ---- HELPING THE DEVIL. The fundamentalists are deploring the rows precipitated in certain churches by the liberalists. And the | liberalists are deploring them as a | result of the opposition of the funda- | mentalists, Bach side deplores the stubbornness of the other. This in- tolerance has characterized the con- flict between the religious standpat- ters and progressives from the be- ginning, As a consequence religion | suffers. If this sort of wrangling | continues, the disgusted gallery oft unredeemed humanity may develop | an inclination to say "A plague on both your houses," and leave it so. Certainly, if the opposing factions are sincere in their religion, they can find it in their hearts to con- cede to brothers on the other side the right to think for themselves, To lay down certain dogma or theories and to demand acceptance by the other side .is to assume an autocratic attitude that is foreign to | true religion." There is room for { tolerance, and such tolerance is es- | sential to preservation of the integ- {rity of .the churches involved. A bitter religious wrangle between un- yielding factions must necessarily work to the advantage of the devil, True believers will not be so foolish, THE COST OF ACCIDENTS. In spité of the new safeguards which are continually being put into effect in industry, there seems to be no decrease in the number of acei- dents in the factories of Canada. The year 1923 stands out in the his- tory of compensation in the prov- ince as the year in which there were more accidents reported to the board than ever before in its history. The previous high mark in accidents was in 1920, when the total was 54,851, go that the last year has seen an in- crease of nearly eight thousand over the former high record mark, and it 1s close to 11,000 more than In 1922. Of the accidents reported, 379 had fatal endings. The cost of this to the province is very heavy. During the year, bene- fits awarded to employees and rela- tives of those who were killed amounted to $6,173,761.74. That is the total only of the compensation which was actually paid out. It does not take into consideration the loss of production caused by the em- ployees being , absent from their work, and this factor, it Is estimated would easily double the cost of acei- dents to the province. The com- pensation board, in drawing these figures to the attention of employers, makes an appeal for direct action with a view to reducing the number of accidents, and makes the claim that a little care, a little forethought and a little commonsense would pre- vent thousands of accidents and re- duce the huge money loss. John Ross Shaw, past president of the Canadian Manufacturers Assdeia~ tion, in al recent speech, however, had some very different ideas to ex- press regarding the loss through compensation for accidents. He drew attention to the fact that the increase was all for minor aceidents. This showed, he said, not that more accidents were taking place, but that men were reporting accidents which in previous years would have been ignored. The reason for this, he said, was twofold. First, the in- crease in the percentage of compen- sation paid was responsible for mak- ing men more willing to stay away from work because of minor injuries, and he emphatically stated that he had found men who would rather stay at home and accept two-thirds of thelr usual wages, rather work to earn full wages. posits of copper and iron and gold, | these arguments, i increase in 'the amount of compen- { sation has something to do with the | iy may be that the, 1 alchemist who sought the method by | increase. in. the number. of accidents |§.. | reported. No one will say, of course, | that the percentage of compensation | | In' the case of a serious accident js {too high, because any man who is | | incapacitated in the course of his | | datly labours is entitled to receive | | generous compensation. But, as the | | report of the board shows that the | the | increase is entirely in accidents of | Lodge accordingly damned it. {a minor nature, it wopld 'seem logl- | | cal to make some provision for cur- | | tatling the amount of compensation | { In accidents of this kind, so that | men of the class referred to by Mr. | { Snaw would be more willing to re-| jturn to work rather than accept | money to which they may not be really entitled. | | b UNCLE SAM ENQUIRING 'BY Albert Braest Stafford To understand United States ob- jection to the League of Nations one has to understand United , States party polities. League ~ of Nations and Now that President Wilson is beaten, in { order to save his face and comport { Senator | himself with consistency Lodge must continue to damn the League of Nations and accordingly does so. Party politics has a way of swinging from the east to the west and from the north to the south and whenever the electorate discover that 'they have been bamboozled in { any fashion they swing more decid- THE CHORAL SOCIETY. | Such organizations as the Kings- | |ton Choral Society contribute a ne- | cessary and even .vital element to the well-being of our city. Without vision the people penich, and ant is one of the great forces to 14t us out | {of our crowded work-a-day life. [When the mere listener catches so much of this, 'who can estimate the | {performer's satisfaction in the sori- | |ous study and reproduction of some- | thing artistic, or the value of the | diseiglline to be found in making | melody together under the will of a| conductor, Artistic bodies deserve a place in Kingston. In the past their | career has usually been all too brief. { Almost invariably they have been the creation of one or two enthusi- | asts who spared neither time nor | effort on their behalf; they have | flourished and blossomed for a few | years and then, as was perhaps in-| evitable, they have gone to seed and died. Then the ground has lain fal- | low for some years awaiting the | stirrings of another enthusiast. | Yet why should a city choir be 80 | much less stable than volunteer | church choirs ? A sufficient body | of capable performers is always | among us. How can continuity of | enthusiasm and corporate effort be secured .along musical and other | artistic lines such as the drama, for instance ? -------- THE LOSS FROM WEEDS, London Free Press. Hon. John Bracken, premier of Manitoba, addressed the United Farmers of Manitoba at their annual | meeting recently and he gave them some startling facts in regard to the losses from weeds on the farms of that province. He figured that $20.- 000,000 is the annual loss to the farmers of Manitoba through weeds. Easterners, 'who have travelled through Manitoba in recent years, have stated that there are many parts of the province where the weeds have become so bad that it would almost seem as if the farmers were raising crops of weeds instead of grain. Judging from the state- ment of Premier Bracken they were not exaggerating the situation. Much is heard from the West in re- gard to the tariff and how it mulets the farmers of millions of dollars annually, yet the total amount paid by the farmers of Manitoba for cus- toms duties in a year would not be a quarter the amount they are now losing annually in weeds. The farmers of the West have a tendency to look towards parliaments and legislatures to right their wrongs. All their economic griev- ances are to be wiped out by legls- lation. This has been at the basis of the political movement among the farmers and of the growth of the Progressive party in the West. How- ever, if half the'money and effort which was spent on political 'agita- tion was devotyd to better farming, sdch as the extermination of weeds, the farmers would be immensely further ahead. A well-known West- ern newspaper man, who has attend- ed every meeting of the United Farmers of Alberta for years, told the writer recently that he had never heard a word in his recollec- tion In regard to better farming methods at the annual conventions. ---------- cents MYSELF, surer I have to live with myself and so I want to be fit for myself to know, I want to be able as days go by Always to look myself straight in the eye. I don't want to stand, with the set- ting sun And hate myself for the things I've done. : I don't want to keep on the closet shelf : A whole lot ot séfrets about myself, And fool myself, as I come and go Into thinking that nobody else will know ' The kind of a man I really am. I don't want to dress up myself in sham, J want to go out with my head erect on't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show, s ny | edly than ever. m-- Consequently the League of Nations is by no means a lost cause in United Statés. More and more people are coming to know about it daily, and those who know are enthusiastic over its success and its practical operations. A strong support has been discovered for it fa an entirely unexpected quarter, and the incidents attending this dis- covery indicate A what powerful as- sistance may develop for.it before long. Mr, Bok, who retired recent- ly from the editorship of The Ladies' Home Journal, having idle hands, as no doubt Senator Lodge reflects, found some mischief to do, and offer- | ed a large sum as a prize for the | best proposal towards attaining the world's peace. A committee has awarded the prize to a plan whicn is practically the recognition of the League of Nations, and Senator Lodge and his friends are thorough- ly disgusted and have begun to abuse Mr. Bok, there being no other argu- ments available. The merit of the proposal, as we see it, is that it en- j2bles the people to gain some re- liable information about the League of Nations. Nations Co-operating. The newspapers are being filled with. accounts of, the successful ac- tivities of the league, and the splen- did organization of 54 nations which it has brought together; and maps showing that Russia and Siberia, the United States and its dependencies, Germany, Turkey; Egypt, Equador, the? Dominion Republic and Mexico are the only countries outside its muster. Doubtless there was a simi- lar assembly that jeered when Noah was constructing the Ark, but those who got inside laughed longest. It may be so in this case, and those with the will for fellowship, who try to put it in practice, who, at least, make an honest effort, can afford to ignore the opposition of those who desire to do nothing, and who, by what at least is apathy, have delayed the long-hoped-for federation of the world. It is' being realized that if the plan of the.world court is right, then the League of Nations cannot be wrong. It is membership in the world court that is involved in the Bok peace proposal, but the one largely depends upon the other, and so discussion of the league arises naturally. Professor Manley O. Hud- son, Bemis professor of Law at Har- vard University, has been drawn into a discussion of the League aftér a session of the School of Poli- tics of the Massachusetts League of Women Votersiat Radcliffe College. He recognized that the League and World. Court had entirely separate functions. = "The purpose of the Court is to try cases by law. I am a lawyer myself, and I realize, there- tore, what a wide range of human problems is outside the legal sphere. Of the two organizations, the Lea- gue ig, I believe, the more vital, for it provides a means of nations get- ting together around a table to set- tle their disputes." Distrusting the Judges, Professor .Hudson believed that both bodies are needed, however, and that United States membership In the World Court was a step in the right direction. Part of the incredul- ity of United States people is explain- ed by the objection, arising out of their own experience politically, which leads them to distrust all kinds of officials. "Are not the fudges of the Court paid for by the League of Nations and pensioned by the League, and, therefore incapable of making any but League decis- ions?" That is the kind of mental- ity United States objectors to the League of Nations have cultivated. That is an illuminating glimpse of United States psychology. That en- ables us to see why law and order is so lightly esteemed by a large per- centage of the citizens of the repub- He. They have not been able to conceive of a judiciary which would be absolutely independent and who could give their decisions nn other- wise than in harmony with te high- est ideals and traditions of justice and equity, Professor Hudson ex- plained that the judges of the World : | iil fill fie In order to beat Pre- | sident Wilson in a presidential elec- | tion it was necessary to damn the | Senator | 'BIBBY'S BIG SUIT SPECIAL 29.50 Nicely tailored garments. : Fine quality English Wool Serge in plain . Blue or Grey. Neat Herringbone Worsteds in rich shade of Brown or Blue--all new models. Suits ready to try on, finished to your order in a few hours' time, ? SPLENDID VALUES IN 'N obby Overcoats Nobby English, Irish AlL-W ool Overcoats and Ulsters swagger styles, expert tailoring; absolutely correct models, Every Overcoat we offer at wholesale prices. Wonderful values at $27.50, $37.50, $45.00 Others at $19.50 BIBBY'S ---------- ~~ - Asia are in but Turkey and Afghan- istan. All of Africa except Egypt is in, and all of South America except Ecuador, so Senator Lodge's objec- tion that it was a European Lsague is rather stupid. The League is a public body. The fight for publicity was carried on by the League itself. The minutes of all meetings, public, private or secret are made public immediately. The actual deeds of the League would take columns to detail.. Five hundred treaties have been registered by it in the last four years. It h one much for the co-dijfication of international law. The special commissions that have been organized under it are of im- portant 'assistance to, branches of governmental activity which have never been able to attack the exist- ing conditions hitherto without some such organization. The opium com- mission, the white slave traffic com- mission, the health commission, the commission on the reduction of armaments, the economic commis- sion, are all doing splendid service. The health commission may be men- tioned for its special success, so great indeed that even the United States and Soviet Russia are co- operating with it informally. Trea- ties made with United States are re- gistered with the League of Natjons by the other parties to the treaties. Uncle Sam has to be treated {ike a big boy. Meanwhile the Bok plan excites plenty of valuable discussion about the League, and if it should be adopted and United States enter the World Court, the principle of the League of Nations has been accept- That " In zero weather or times of sickness a Hot Water Bottle is a great comfort and conveni« ence. We have them in Earthenware, Metal and Rubber From small face bottle, 78c., to highest grade--8$4.00. Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 848 Body |: . of Pours By James W, Berton, M.D, Your heart has been beating rap- idly and violently, examination, After the examination, he as-|t sures you that your heart is absol- utely sound, and suggests that you forget about it: You are. satisfied for a short time, and then soon again your heart seems to be beating very rap- You count your pulse and hundred beats to the minute instead of seventy or eighty. You become quite excited, snd when you try it again you find ft beating about one hundred and twenty. A 'There must be something 'wrong, Well, a heart beating that fast put it doesn't necee- hose hearts affected by the pres- ure of gas from the stomach. It may be just the excitement of a caller on the telephone. Just an ordinary siight exertion performed suddenly, such es getting up from a reclining position, going to the door or telephone, and Now the first thing to remember is that the cases of imaginary hear: disease greatly outnumber the cases of actual heart disease, It is not unusual for nervous or You have thought you had some | hysterical people to have these rap- form of heart disease and have gone | ld hearts. hysiclan for an Whose blood is not Td a Tou hiya) there is often a tendency toward] ' Also in very thin people rich = enough, his sensitiveness of the heart. The condition is disagreeable but is not dangerous. . Now what to do about it? If the rapidity is due entirely to the feeling that there is something actually wrong with the heart, then the only sensible thing to do is to see your family doctor, and get the matter cleared up. Do these sensitive hearts need drugs? 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