MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1924. THE. DAILY BRITISH WHIG 398,000 and that of the Ferguson ference system would last very long. government $29,442,000 in three | The fear of being committed to some plications for divorce, as reported | months end a half. That means an | Policy of which they did not approve trom Ottawa, furnishes considerable | average monthly {increase for the | Would lead thé Dominions to refuse fooq for thought. "Is marriage | new Government of $1,424,000, wn {15 2904 delegates to the cunfersnse. failure?' is a qgestion which has a yearly = increase of $17,088,000. { will 'not be held together by setting been on the minds and tongues of | And, as Mr. Belanger pointed out | yp a supreme and over-riding legisla- the civilized world for upwards of} to the 'house, the new government | {ture in the shape of an Imperial Con. two decades. It is self-evident that | jhas intimated 'that qn the basis even | ference. The problem of 'the the question was raised by rapidly | of last year's expenditures there will | Empire's future will not be soived increasing numbers of divorces be a deficit of $5,000,000 or $6,- on those lines. It may upon com- wherever the institutions of mar-|000,000. monwealth of nations lines; but that riage and givorce exist. | The Liberals 'in the legislature DUSt CATTY with it the Sovereign Among many the mere fact that!say they take the present position Yighs i Pog hd the divorce rate in some countries | of provincial finances very seriously, igi I cp resolutions final ! is as high as one in every seven éven if they dbd-not swallow the and binding must necessarily be op! marriages is conclusive proof that | whole of the $15,000,000 deficit | posed. ~~Johannesburg Sunday Times. the world has outgrown the imstitu-| that the government presents, By pe tion of marriage. Others argue that |iha amendment introduceq by Mr. the husbands and wives are at fault, | Belanger, the followers of W. E. N. not the iaostitution which legally | Sinclair, K.C., are demandigg a That binds them. Still others have con-|gevere curtailment of public expen- fidence in the efficacy of marriage | ditures to an extent which will ef- and consider divorce as a necessary | fact a balancing of the budget when process of elimination. ! next the provincial treasurer comes In any contemplation of the di- | ¢0 address the legislature. orce problem it must not be forgot- [ ten that the institution of legalized | marriage is man-made and of rela-| pong considered a mecca for pub- tively modern origin. Undoubtedly | 1city seeking explorers and a Wmon- there are countless men and women | entity in world colonization, the who think of the modern form of | froze lands of the Arctic circle may marriage as having always existed. goon 'become a factor in world com- It is also) forgotten sometimes that merce. Explorers are insistent on Among somg, uncivilized tribes, hav- | the presence of unprecedented stores ing a form df marriage distinct!of minerals and ofl in the land of from oure, divorce and marital dis- | perpetual ice. The future signifi- content are unknown. | cance of the Arctic regions was suf- The fact that marriage and divorce | ficiently recognized by the federal continue in existence side by side 18 | government as to cause it to send due to the .ack of anything better | several expeditions northward under suited to the peculiar needs of civi- | that hafly old seaman, Capt. Ber- lization and Christianity. Should | nier, who is even now in England marriage in the future be found "a | outfitting a ship for another voyage. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. The increase in the numbér of ap- Sale of VELOUR BIBBY'S HATS : : ' DO IT NOW! If Ever Fhere Was a Good Time To Buy a Suit, That Time is RIGHT NOW! VELOUR HATS Our advertising campaign is on now. In place of giving the newspaper all our good money, we are go- ing to split Fifty-Fifty with our customers. This kind of advertising is good for you and good for us. It's - worth a trial. " We are offering this month some truly wonderful clothing values. srsssussnanneet A Elliott Presiden iy A. Guild Editor ent UNEXPLORED RESOURCES. Social . Job Department arene SERSCRIPTION 'RATES: sofas saves MEN'S AND YOUNG. MEN'S SUITS Nobby Tweeds $14.75 Fancy Worsteds $18.00 English Hairline Tweeds $22.50 td By James W. Barton, M.D, Raw Foods. The argument is often advanced that raw foods, the natural food of | man, should be eaten in their natu-| ral state, and not spoiled by eook-| ing. It is further argued that man | is the same in body as he was in prehistoric times, and early man ate | raw foods. | Further, that man's long intestine | shows that he was meant to_eat raw | rough foods, and so plenty of length of intestine gives plenty of time for Genuine Blue and Brown Eng- lish Worsteds; splendidly tail- ored in newest models for *29.50 Also fine Pencil Stripe Worst- OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ». Onidar, 22 St John St, Montreal ¥e W. Thompson 100 King St. W., Toronto. Letters hg Fo the Editor are Ste 3utlisbed gly ves the actual ot the ome of the best job "Canada. I The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Clrculations The early bird gets his reward. [But the early worm becomes the {ste worm, rte I du -- Adam had his faults, but you cam pay one thing for him, He was an priginal cuss. Hard times are just little intervals pt timidity between periods of nor- mal growth, 3 The farmer could always hold the Ppalance of power if he had the money fo hold his crops. Le ------------ Hell, for gome people, will be a place full of endless delights, all mercilessly censored. Business integrity is improving. No manufacturer now really claims to have a one-man top. An open countenance would be fine except for the string of words that comes out of the opening. The girl who runs away from a hick town is said to be missing, but she isn't missing much, One good way to save steps in the kitchen is to marry a man who can afforg to feed you at a cafe. Nature is falr, Arms enticing, fegs to carry him away from She made woman's but she gave man there. S---- If husband and wife have quar- reled, you know they haven't made mp it she hasn't bothered to make --p eed -------- In a little while now wa can lor our lesser problems and worry pbout the meighbor's chickens in the garden, In the wicked old wet days you @ould give a party without having to . garry out any of your guests feet first. You can find true Canadiayiem Put in the districts where men un- Dutton their vests after the third Belping. Lenine's - successor is reported #lok. Contemplation of his job Bhould be enough to make him that 4 six-year term for the Mexican president is proposed. It would not Apply, however, in case of untimely demise, i sin nine One thing a girl can't understand fs that the stranger driving the car may be wicked even if he is hand- some. ; - A A ------ Another fault in our edugational system is that some girls must try 'several schdols before getting a hus- nd, _ Birds from the Camary Islands may sing popular songs. We've birds from Belleville singing r He's A Jolly Good Fellow." Men are urged to teke a second at the girl before marrying. AFouble is that when a man ar- at that state, the more he looke better the impression. - . BIBLE THOUGHT BE KINDLY AFFEC- TIONED one io another "the sight of ail men. of evil, but overcome 13:10, ' failure" and divorce an unsuitable | remedy, for the ills of legalized mar- | riage, then {it is probable that the civilization of that gay and age will conceive of an alternative compat- ible with its requirements, It is patent to the world of to-day that we have nothing. better to offer for marriage and divorce and that subterfuges, such as the placing of unnatural obstacles {pn the path of marriage and divorce, will do more to hinder than to ald the solution of this problem of modern man. THE WAY TO END WAR. While the Bok peace plan issstill being discussed in the press and in the United States congress, along to end all wars. The American pub- lic is finally to be given an oppor: tunity to express its mind on a world peace plan which would not depend upon war and force to pre- vent war. A man, who is said to be a retired Detroit banker, has offered $25,000 for a plan to prevent fu- ture wars by education. The anony- mous dongr will find generous sup- port from 'all sides. There are not a few people who believe that any form of a League of Nations, depending for its power its purpose, The evil of war is too deep rooted to be awed by alliances and treaties. Man has ever been at war against man and will be until he understands that everybody loses and nobody gains in war. That man is gradually becoming so convinced is demonstrated by the diminishing number of wars, the feverish desire of many nations and peoples to abo- lish wars for all time, and the spread over the face of the globe of the doctrine of the brotherhood of man. Instruction in the Gcldem Rule, in- ternational economics and cold facts and bare truths in history nt convince child or man of the tudility of war under any and all conditions. Just as long as any nation - be- lleves in the existence or occurrence of justifiable wars, the world must be torn and rent by strife. With future generations educated against war in any of its forms and causes, wars will be an impossibility. Neces- sity 1s a matter of mind, in matters of war as in other things. ON DEFENSIVE ALREADY. From the point of view of the ordinary citizen, the item of out- standing interest in last week's bud- get debates in the legislature was the startling sudden with which the Ferguson go t was thrown from its vigorous offensive against the Progressives into a posi- tion where it must defend its. own brief record. The brillant speech of A. Belan- ger, the new Liberal 'member for Russell, constitutes a challenge which the governmemt gan either overlook, or which, if it sees fit, it can take the palms to meet with its remaining speakers. For Mr. Belan- ger put it up to the administration from the figures of its own expert, Attorney-General Nickle, that they were vastly exceeding the spending pace set by the late Drury govern- ment, Figures, of course, make dreary trouble to read Mr. Belanger's few statistics one can grasp the Inimense importancé of what the member for Russell was putting forward. And the figures ou which Mr. Belanger bases his calculations are not his. They are the attorney-general' Mr. Belanger workeq it out in de- but taking just the total' tures, it is this: Mr. Nickle said comes another man with a scheme | | merce and exploration. upon the use of arms, must fail of! 4 exp reading, but if one will just take the tall, with all kind of expenditures, | | It was also recognized by the Ame- rican naval authorities when they | proposed itg air-routing by the giant dirigible, "Shenandoah." Only poli- tical complications at Washington suspended preparations for the flight, In the news of the week is seen a report of a movement by Ameri- can oil interests to lease vast areas of polar lands for oil exploitation. The venture has the co-operation and sponsorship of Vilhjilmur Stef- fanson, world recognized Arctic ex- plorer. It is not improbable that the struggle for control of the world's oil supply may be transfer: req from the Near East and North and Central America to the far { north. Man has always won his bat- tles against nature, so production of oil and valuable minerals at the top of the globe, and perhaps at its bottom, may be placed on a commer- cial basis within the time allotted to the present generation. If the fro- Zen areas may be made to work for man, the hardships of the hardy northland explorers will not have only to satisfy adventurous irits ang human curiosity. Commerclalization of the Arctic reglons is promised for the present age by the leaders of modern com- Colonization thousands of years hence of these areas is predicted by present-day geologists who agree that the ice of the glacial period is still receding towards the poles and that at some time the polar regions will enjoy al climate comparable to that now pe- culiar to the temperate zone. Canada, however, has established her clalm to the regions north of the dominion, where a number of police barracks have been located. This country will maintain its right to the Arctic lands in the far north, except those north of Alaska. The federal hungry as his mouth they by means of strong stomach muscles were well mixed up with the food. real digestion in the small intestine, the digestion of these raw foods. Now what about it? All this is undoubtedly true. You havé the same body as the man of thousands of years ago. The same teeth, stomach, intestine, and so forth. Then why do we cook food? Simply because although you have the same body, you do not live the same kind of life. Our early man lived an outdoor life. He hunted, and later tilled, but always the outdoors. He had the greatest assefs of all time, a real healthy hupger--appe- tite for food. And when he sunk his teeth--real teeth--into raw foods, he ground them up--broke down the hard fibres of the meats and vegetables, which mixed them up with the saliva, and softened them for stomach digestion. His stomach juices were just as juices, and It was thus ready for the What about you? You don't live this outdoor life. You sometimes have a good appe- tite, but not always. was put down in front of early man would never tempt your appetite. The food that And so your food {s cooked for you to make it attractive and appe- tizing. The odor of it, its appear- ance, the dishes and everything else connected with a your appetite juices, encouraged to eat. eat too much, frequently. meal stimulate and you are Encouraged to Cooking also makes changes in the food that render ft more diges- tible. for the reason spoken of above. Early man didn't need this But you need it because your hun- ger julces, your teeth, your digestive juices, are nothing like as strong as early man. Cooking softens tle meat sé that it is easier to chew, and Juices 'get to the food more readily. "~ government should make this quite clear to all and sundry, so as to avold possible complications in the future. L PRESS COMMENT French Logic. Poincare's policy has been Napole- onic, because it sought to blind the eyes of the French people to defects at home while arousing their enthus- {asm for la gloire abroad. And it is failing for the same reason that the policy of the two Napoleons failed-- because the French people are at heart provincial and not imperialis- tie, peace-loving and not warlike, cautious and not reckless. The French like to hear their military bards in foreign cities, and to see their flag waving over foreign cita- dels, but as a long line of shattered rulers attests, they put prosperity and stability at-home far above these gasconades.--Baltimore Sun. Plain Clothes. (His Majesty has decided that ceremonial gress need not be worn at , court functions): Here is a simple act of good will and good sense. But it is, In effect, one of those soclal revolutions which come to pass in this country without fuss or trouble. In 80 far as the color and pageantry of the court are diminished, the MONEY AT WORK Brief but Important Lessons In Finance, Markets, Stocks, an and Inveatments English and Domestic Pure Wool Cheviots ~~ $25.00 Greys. BIBBY'S eds -- Brown and Navy with fine stripe, also plain Blue and 9» of accumulation after all, since he is keeping up with the richest na- tion, and in advance of the rest of the world. WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorological Society, Tells How. The Migratory Winter of 1023-24, Winter holds his court where un- usually large volumes of cold air are rapidly moving southward. The cold, heavy alr enters like a wedge from the north, raising the warm- | er air in its path, and so causing the | formation of dense clouds and the precipitation of a heavy blanket of | snow. In the winter of 1923-24 these | conditions obtained successively for | short periods in widely separated re- | gions, although the season as al whole was miid and open. | In October, Winter visited 'the central Appalachians and central | Rockles, Late in November, Winter settled for awhile on the wesler | plateau region and again visited the | central and southern Rockies. In De- | cember, Winter even penetrated in- | to northern Mexico, and also appear- | ed in full regalia around Quebec. At | the close of the holiday season and | agaln later in January, Winter was | tound on the march from Alaska to | Georgia. By the end of January Winter settled down in the north- eastern United States and southern Ontario, his accustomed haunts, which, 'he had hitherto visited ' but briefly. Thence he made occasional terrific raids southward, especially acrose the upper Lake region. v Lady Bathurst's "Old Gentlemen." Lond Daily Express. MONEY : COMPOUNDED The average man thinks that his | chances of accumulating any money {at 3 or 4 per cent. compound inter. est are pretty slim. Yet, if one of out ancestors had invested a penny back in the days of Ohrist, at 4 per cent. wealth of the whole world to-day. From 1850 to 1912 the wealth-of the United States Increased at the the per capita wealth only increas. ed:at the rate of 3 per cent. '| pangges to attract the interest of Lady Bathurst's old gentlemen, who emerge with blinking eyes frem the slumbersome recesses of the Cave of Abdullam to see if the world is still flat aand then return satisfied that '* is so, have discover ed that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, be- ing. Prime: Minister, somehow the-public.. What particularly an. noys them' appears to be the reve- lation "that the 'Prime Minister 'is not a bloodless pelitical abstraction, but a sentient being-who Walks on two legs, wears plus fours in the country ,and moves {nto 10 Down- ing street with a couple of sets of goif clubs and a piano. In other words, they see.something indecent in this. exposure of the simple hum- an habi nd tastes of the first citizen of the. land. They would pre- fer to ignore these things, as the Spanish grandees of former days Ma the royal lege ofsthe Queen of A BAD BREAK in a wheel or other part of an en- gine means the machinery and loss and delay. us put our welders to work on the broken part and your machine will ..be running in a few hours, as good @s new. stoppage of Bishop 'Machine Shop KING D3 QUEEN STREET» --ye have some attrac- tive bargains in city pro- perty. --A good list of farm and garden lands| lo, choose from. --Fire Insurance in first- class companies. --Money to loan on mort- gages. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance 58 BROCK S8T., KINGSTON Phones 8223 and 1797J. Spain. But the average man undoubt- edly likes to know that the states- man on whom such responsibilities rest is of the same clay as himself, legs and all. They awful toga In which the British Prime Ministers were once draped now hangs in the museum. Let Lady Bathurst's old gentlemen take a sedative pinch of snuff and return to their slumbers. The Strike Boomerang. Every strike of this kind puts up the cost of living, for, even when nominal wages are increased, their purchasing power will usually remain stationary, or even fall. Thus the injury which unnecessary strikes in- flict on the workers, as well as upon the general body of the nation, is considerable, We do not suggest that conditions never arise in which men have a right ta strike. What is cer- tain is that the strike, as an appeal to force which injures a vast multi- tude of non-combatants, is a barbar- ous and costly way of settling a sim- ple matter of business.--London Mail, There is no sense in words unless they are properly strung together. Silence may be golden, but a good deal of speech is brazen, re 4 The London | bona «ew bb Th se 0 le £ "dercupinain ther words, just handivd SPECIALS IN TALCUMS Hudnut's "Three Flowers" Regular 85c. for 25c. Colgate's, All Odors With Vial of Perfume Vivadou's, Three Odors Regular 25%, 2 for 35c¢c. "Bee our windows Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 343 Clover Honey In the Comb. .25c. per section Extracted, 5 and 10. pails-- 15¢. per pound, Jas. REDDEN & CO. ~ PHONES 20 and 990, AGAINST THE COMMON FOE JACK FROST-WELL Tat TINIE OAL QUARTETTE E'VE declared war against Jack Frost and you are our allies. We will declare no separate peace but will continue to heap 'coals of fire upon that gentleman's head until he's licked 'to a frazzie and 'speaks sway, We taking ordory ftom Jou. dons us, the Let