oo A THE BRITISH WHIG Published Dafly THE BRITISH Co, J Leman A. Gulla ... 918T YEAR. nd Semi-Weekly b G. Billets .. , Editor and TELEPHONE Private Exchange, coanecting all departmen OUT-OF-TOWN REPRFSENTATIVES: » ». Calder, 32 St. Joha St, Montreal W. Thompson Terente. Letters to the Editor are published Attached over the &ciual mame of the is ome of the best job Canada. printing offices in The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations to Excessive speéd may be as fata a train as to an automobile. As we understand the ultra-lib- erals, they feel that they have out- grown God. ' The less logic you can use to de- fend your faith, the more temper you must use. Many of the mew novels concern illicit booze, and still others show the effects of it. "I would not number among my friends one who needlessly sets foot upon the gas." in In a hick town, heresy consists doubting the infallibility of the local millionaire. Advice to that commission: Save the marks anid the francs will take care of themselves. . The liquor of the old wet days had its faults, but it wouldn't make a jJitney assault a locomotive. A doctor is a man who advises a rest and make you work your fool fread off to pay for the advice. A patriot is a man who swallows the dogma that happens to be spons- ored by the majority of the moment en David never drank heavily, as some charge. He was the chap who wrote: ing." "Joy cometh in the morn- -------- -- Investigators doubtless will dis- cover that the only thing about Ger- many that is unimpaired is her nerve, A vacuum cleaner is now being featured Im a movie flim. Replacing sentiment with eeodiment, so to apeak. in oome out at.tbe little end of Trouble with the horn of plenty that you are always liable to the horn, \ Correct this sentence: '"She has won three beauty prizes," related the gossip, "and she is a wonderful help to merchant marine will her mother." for the be a fine Centralized authority thing. Now all it needs is passeng. ors and freight. Sense German Gpances are reported im. proving. That ia the only direction which they could move, if they changed at all. British vail workers appear to find that it {s as hard to win a strike under a labor government as under 'any other kind. 'While the name Leninegrad may not add any glory to the city, Pete, ~the Great was not such an admir- able character, either. it is commonly reported that the Labor ministry plans to usher in spring within the next seven or eight weeks, : -- Prohibition. wouldn't amount to a y WHIG PUBLISHING | LIMITED We King St. W,! { THE USE OF LANGUAGE. The Reverend Dr. Wilfred Kings- ley, of Cushendall, is always a speak- fer worth hearing. When he strikes audience does not know when to take him seriously and when not, and yet, by his clever suggestions is forced to think seriously about those matters he wishes to put before it--then he is not only interesting, but useful, But only one little feature of Dr. Kingsley's address to the Kingston Kiwanis club do we intend to dis- cuss here, In pointing out to his audience the beauty of the French language, and in enumerating the advantages to be gained by 'a more general knowledge of it throughout Canada, a working knowledge, not a theoretical one acquired carelessly, the speaker used English. True, he would not have been un- | derstood to the full had he used : French, for it is questionable if many Managing-Director| members of our local club~with all due respect to them, and ourselves, understand that tongue. But the point is that Dr. Kingsley gained and retained the interest of quite a large body of representative citizens, and made them think, not by the use of French, but by the use of English. So, while speaking of the advant- ages' of French for oratory, Dr. Kingsley demonstrated the advant- ages of English, JIVIC ECONOMY NECESSARY. With economy being practised by the governments of the country and the provinces, our city council must cut its expenditure to the limit this year, The mayor intimated at elec- tion time that there would be no need of increasing the tax rate in 1924, despite the addition of added expenditures that are uncontrollable. It is the duty of the aldermen to aid the mayor in his effort not to add to the rate of thirty-six mills that was levied last year, but to decrease it if at all'possible, Thig can only be done by the utmost care. To a large extent the tax rate depends upon the deben- ture debt increase made in the pre- ceding year; so if the council of this year wishes to be kind to the rate- payers next year it will see that the debenture debt through local " im- provements is not increased beyond what ig actually necessary. The net debt of Kingston is $2,- 415,000, on which $132,000 interest was paid last year. The sum of $250,000 was added last year to the debt, largely through the erection of the isolation building for the General Hospital. This debt increase' added a mill and a half to the tax rate. Ac- cording to the city treasurer, deben- tures for $127,000 will be added this year to pay for local improvements constructed in 1923, while the amount of local improvement bonds to be retired this year will be $83,- 000, thus Increasing the bonded debt by $44,000. To this latter amount is to be added $63,000 for the pro- vinclal highway, $16,000 for the new fire motor pup and $12,000 for the new industrial site, both of the arvter having been authorized by vote of the people. What the city council can do is to adopt a plan of expend- ing in future no more money on road paving than the amount of pavement bondg to be, retired in such year. Ac- cording to the treasurer, $56,000 in paving bonds will fall due next yeary let the city council cut its road pav- ing programme in 1924 to that amount, as the bonds to cover one year's paving are issued the following year. That would be a good policy to pursue. N So It is understood that the Board of Bducation is going to co-operate with the council in keeping down ex- penditures, and therefore there will be no hope of salary increases to teachers this year. There are no salary boosts anywhere, for these are difficult times. In wartime the peo- ple thought business was bad, but during the past two years business concerns have been hit harder than ever before. How some of them keep their heads above water is one of the wonders of the ttmes. Municipalities can help by mot adding more taxes to those who are hardest burdened. This must be borne in mind: Kingston has not grown in popula- tion since the war and the only means of securing additional civic revenue for improvements is by add- ing to the fax rate, | We are better oft than most cities of our size, as our tax rate is lower than the large majority and our assessment is really low. But when the assessment is low a little higher tax rate has to be levied to get the required éivie revenue. Until Kingston's popula- tion increases by the addition of in- dustries, we cannot hope for better conditions. All the council can do fs to keep trom adding too much to the bonded debt. That will keep our tax rate - at least stationary, if it does not make it a little lower. ------ "A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE," * The immortal couplet of Pope, "A little knowledge is a dangerous "unless it creates a desire for more knowledge." Pope may have meant a. multitude of things by his pro- verb, but if he here employed "know- ledge" as a synonym for "truth" he Was grievously in error and by his inspired pen has done mankind much Since the war the civilized peoples have learned to their alarm that al- though there is nothing dangerous "in the possession of knowledge in - one of those moods in wihch bis | thing," should be amended to include | small or large amounts, much that is dangerous can come from a misuse of knowledge." The classical schools of philosophy invariably came to the | conclusion that there was no "truth" and made their deductions from there, keeping ever in mind that all was opinion and theory. Modern schools of philosophy have taken quite the opposite" attitude from the classics. They work from the "promisg that the other side is| wrong and from that point make de- ductions which they proclaim to the | worid as proven facts or truths, The | ancleat philosopher was with know- | ledge. The modern philosopher is claiming for himself supreme intel- ligence. . Many writers are seizing on scraps of blological sclence, or on bits of discovery in the physical laboratory or on oddg and ends of philosophical theory with which to bulid world- comprehengive theses, which may be twisted by the ignorant and unthink- ing Into argument and justification for all sorts of weird and destructive movements. . In the fleld of '"'new thought" such dangerous trifling with little knowledge is generally con- spicuous, Unknown individuals blossom out as authorities on life and soul problems. Almost any vol- ume offered carries positive exposi- thon as to perfeot happiness and con- tentment and as to health and soul salvation. Different, and often an- tagonistic, theories and arguments are relied on to make out the cases championgd by different authors. Thus readers who fail to take their Iiterature on guch subjects with the salt of reason may be led into peril- ous conclusion and become involved in a twisted scheme of life. A little knowledge is truly a dan- gerous thing when it deals out dan- gerous theories and conclusions for readers who are not capable of Wwetghing truth and reason. ------------ Ril A PY RESULT. The happy results in Austria of Intrusting financial and administra- tive reforms to the League of Na- tions, with an a 8g _-- na- turally drawn the attention of neigh- bors in Budapest. Now it is an- nounced that the Hungarian govern- ment will accept from the league, upon -conditiong similar to those in force in Austria, a loan of $50,000,- 000 to finance a similar reconstruc- tion, In Vienna a Dutch commissioner is administrating affairs with the strong calm of his race. ' His work has been singularly blessed; the best part of it is that the Austrian people had only to be assured that there was a chance for them to swing from de- spadr to confidence; in that happier spirit they are working out their own deliverance and framing with neigh- boring countries trade connections which are restoring to Vienna much of the prestige it once enjoyed ag financial centre, : Europe, observés the New York World in noting thede facts, simply Will not let the Usited States pull the coverlids over its head and sleep the sleep of isolation. 'We. cannot," it adds, "slice off our part of the sur- face of the globe into a separate planet, spinning in space. There is no rest for the League of Death." BRANSBY WILLIAMS, Last autumn there came to Can- ada a man renowned throughout the British Isles for his superb acting in those parts which he hes chosen to present to the public, In the OM Land he is known far and wide. In Canada he was known only to a few who had visited Eng- land during the war or on business within the Dast ten or fifteen years. In Montreal, that stronghold of Old Country sentiments and tastes, he recelved a wonderful reception. At his Majesty's Theatre he broke the house records. The same was true Ig Vancouver, Victoria and one or two other cities of the West, But in Kingston, Toronto and many other cities of the Bast he was greeted by very slim GQouses, al- though the few do did attend had the saving grace of a high epprecia- tion of his work. On his first visits to Kingston and Toronto, goaded by the sense of wasted effort and the poor apprecia- tion of a really high class presenta- tion, the great actor made the mis- take of 'speaking his thoughts pud- licly and in no uncertain terms. For that he is to be censured, though he may "be forgiven in the same breadth when all circumstances are considered. . He returned again to Toronto and he returned twice to Kingston bat the results were mot much better than before. His last appearance in this city, on Friday and Saturday last, were in his "one man show" in which he offered portrayals of great variety and gplendid presentation. One marvels at his ability to work so well ia the face of such disheart- ening audiences. ! . We have learned three things from Bransby Williams. The first of these is the old and fact tion of Queen's University was de- cidedly poor, The third and most important thing, 'to our minds, is that we have learn- ed that Bransby Williams is not only a great actor, but also what 13 known as "a good sport." First im- pressions did not bring that out, but his repeated returns to this eity m an effort to conquer mark him as courageous and his words at the Rotary Club on Friday last show that he is a man of broad percep- tions for he said: "I have learned a great many things about Canads and about my profession. I go.baek home with a smile, although my tour in Canada shows a deficit of eight or ten thousand dollars." Good luck and bon voyage Rotarian Bransby Williams, to \ PRESS COMMENT Betting a Disease, There is, among people of good character, any amount of difference of opinion about the moral quality of the act of betting. You cannot truly say either that all good men and women think it always wrong, or the reverse. But everyone who knows the life of towns and of mills and factories outside them, to EO no farther, knows that absorption In betting, to the exclusion or dwarfing of other interests, has become an en- demic disease eating into the vitals of the English people as the murrain eats into the life of the cattle of Cheshire. --Manchester Guardian, The Lion and the Lamb, With the dawn of this year of 1924, promises of peace are appear- ing on the horizon. . . . Geographi. cal conditions leave no choice to two great adjacent peoples (France and Germany), but industrial co-opera- tion or eternal war. ., . Without permitting ourselves to be deceived, without relaxing a necessary vigil- ance, we have no right to turn our backs deliberately on certain points of view. A friendly Franco-German entente, 'impossible so long as Ger- many was intoxicated with a sense of superiority, should give good re- sults as soon as she is convinced that We are neither to be deceived nor beaten down and that our energy is equal to our foresight. This convic- tion, our poMcy of 1923 and our campaign in the Ruhr have driven into the German understanding. The day ig fast approaching when we will cull the fruits of our twelve months of effort.--Le Journal (Paris). That Body of By lames W, Barton, M.D, Should Enlarged Tomsils be Re. moved? As a matter of fact I am unable to answer the above question. I have seen tomsils which looked as lange as chestnuts and yet there were apparently no symptoms. The child or adult seemed to breathe naturally, the lung capacity as registered by the spirometer was up to normal, there was mo history of snoring during sleep, and absol- utely no pain whatever. Our leading specialists are inclin- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG SUITS and OVERCOATS ( - At this price you cannot secure better made or better quality Clothing--all are most desired styles, colors and your size. » GENUINE ENGLISH VELOUR $5.75 to $6.50 values, for B73 i £ MEN'S - FINE SHIRTS" : Tooke, Arrow and Long make. Sizes 14 to 174. 'BIBBY'S *.95 Kingston's One Price Clothing House Hotel Frontenac Kingston's Leading Hotel ' Every room has running hot and cold water. One-half block from Railway Stations and Steamboat Landings. J. A. HUGHES, Prop ON GROWING A BACKBONE. The Christian Guardlan. 'Of course every one knows what is meant when we talk about having backbone. It is just a crude, collo- quial way of saying a man has strength of character, determination, fixity of will. And we would all ad- mit, surely, that such things are very excellent to have. Indeed to most of us the lack of them is about the most serfous lack any man can have in his life. The inconsequent, unde- cided, weak-willed, unconvicted in- dividual is never very attractive. The man without backbone is a very great weariness, as we would all admit. But perhaps we do not all quite re- alize that a backbone is a thing that may be grown. A man quite lacking in conviction may come to have some of his own. He may really grow a soul that has some centre to it, some distinctiveness and individuality. It may not be easy, indeed it may, for some of us, be very difficult, but it actually can be done, There is no made-to-order way of doing the thing, any more than there is an easy way. Buta great start has been made when we come to realize that the thing is pre-eminently worth do- ing, and that a colorless, week-willed od to leave such tousils alone now, psoul ig not in the Divine scheme of although in former years the re- moval of all large tonsils was ad- vised. These specialists have ton- sils divided into four classes, the large soft variety, the soft ragged tonsil, the hard small imbedded ton- sfl, and the buried tonsil which can- not be seen because it is behind the pillars, Now just as long as these tonsils {which by the way should disappear before puberty) give no trouble, it is felt that no effort should be made to remove them. ! If you should have an attack of tonsilitis whereby these tomsils be- come greatly.intlamed, and you are prostrated with the usual severe ill- ness that accompanies it, it would be well to have them removed, af- ter you are well again. Some physicians do not condemn the tonsils on one aftack, but ad- vise waiting, and if a second attack ensues, then after you are well over it, the tonsils should be removed. As you know this is also the sys. tem adopted by many physicians in the treatment of an inflamation os the appendix. It is generally agreed that the chronic diseased tonsil, with the white plugs in evidence in the ljttie holes or crypts in the tonsil, is one of the causes of lowered vitality and a forerunner of rheumatism, The operation for removal of the tonsils is now considered worthy of a throat specialist. So it you look down youd throet from time to time and see the white cheesy masses exuding from your ton:dls, remember that these masses should be removed as they can do harm to your system. CR And if you have ever had an acute attack of tousilitis, you have already suffered more pain than the operation can cause you. things for any man. If we could get the idea that personality, individual- ity, distinctivemess, conviction, must count with God quite as much as they count with men it might help us a very great deal to stand up and really be men of backbone and char- acter, Ontario Horticultural Association. (Toronto, Feb. 5.--The annual con- vention of the Ontario Horticultural Association will be held here on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 7th and 8th. One of the first orders of busi- There {8 something more than mere mechanical skill necessary to achieve the perfect result when it comes to nioulding entire new parts for ma- chinery._. Combined with this skill must be the modern officiency of shop equipment, such as we have here, Bishop Machine Shop We have some attrac- tive bargains in city pro- perty. : --A good list of farm and garden lands to 'choose from. --Fire Insurance in first- class companies. --Money to loan on mort- gages. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance 68 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phones 322) and 1797J. ness will be the reading of the an- nual report by the secretary, Dr, J. Lockie Wilson. The past year has been one of great progress in horti- culture In the province. There are now--more than 40,000 members in over 200 societies. , Made Them Barons, London, Feb. 5.--In order that the Cabinet may have spokesmen in the House of Lords, the King to-day con- ferred the title of baron on Sir Byd- ney Oliver, secretary for India, Brig.- Gen, Thomson, air secretary, and Sydney Arnold, under-secretary of state for thy colonies. RECORD FAMILY SERVICE" KING AND QUEEN STREE.. On your, Cane or Walking Stick 50c each Just the thing for sli peory walks. y We carry a dine of Canes from $1.00 up. also Crutches In ali the required sizes -- best Split Maple in a close, straight grain, 185 Princess Street. Phone 348 The quality is kept up to its usual high standard, while the price remains the samo-- 50c. per 1b, Roasted and ground on the premises. Absolutely pure. Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 990. "Ihe House of Satisfaction" TYTN AR TIA Sal: E sing a song of health and heat. We sell a line that's hard to beat. 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