\ \ * THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Published Dafly and Semi-Weekly b THE BRITISH WHIC PUBLISHIN ° CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. Js M. Campbell , + President Leman A. Guild +... Editor and Managing-Director TELEPHONE Business Office . Editorial Rooms Social 5a Job Department ...... or SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) One year in ei One year, by « One year, by mall, 'One year, to United States ...... i OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ¥. Calder, 23 St. John St., Montreal '¥. W. Thompson 100 King St. W., Torents. ren Letters to the Iditer mre published 'only over the actual mame of the writer. Attached is ome of the best printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the . ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations ee The usual tax rate is about five +1les to the return, Job -- ------------ Fable: Once there was a man whose life was an open book. San Francisco woman detective married a man. He is out of luck. It is all right to follow your na- tural bent unless it makes you crook- ed. And yet it is only by making a fool of yourself that you learn to make a man of g fool, When a woman plans a party, the tun consists in making a list of those she won't invite, The meanest boy in our neighbor- hood is using his mother's moth- balls for marbles. At eighteen he yearns to know Life, with a capital L; at eighty he wishes he could forget. A sophisticated girl is one who has practiced for years to - attain her charming naturalness. ers It you think clothes don't make the man, try to imagine a cop being impressive in pajamas, _ When a woman goes in and asks for powder these days the clerk says: "ace, baking or gun?" : ----------_---- If Burbank produces many more seedless things we can do away. with the seed catalogue entirely. Doubtless he is a genuine class A doctor if he assures you that you sent for him just in time, ---- ---- is The worst enemy of all reforma- tion is the man who insists it is wicked to have a good time. Modern liquor may inspire a man { to beat his wife, but fortunately it * disqualifies him for the job. I -- Bobbed hair may Justify ftself in 'the saving of time, but you can't make a bald man believe it, ------ An ordinary draft gives you a cold, ut an overdraft doesn't seem to af- fect anything except the feet. : -------- Science can explain everything ex- copt how a man with a paunch man- ages to get by without sus; ers. Eseries a - Both the man and his wife may desire divorce, but the court must de which shall retain custody of Mah Jongg set. The red m use he, het tot 'may deliver it to an- get of Reds. Correst this seatence: "I figure fuel consumption eliretully," boasted "and I never have to buy an extra n in the spring." lost the. country be- ------------------------------------. y Another good memory test is to the names of those whose re- ns' have been rdined by In- Hgating committees. ------------ There are the days when every) estion mark in a boy's reading les- } looks more like a fish hook to all actually to be fulfilled. kenzie King came into power, 't exploit it; exploit-| A CHEERING BUDGET. The budget presented to the House of Commons on Thursday by | the Hon. J. A. Robb, acting minis- ter of finance, will be received with satisfaction by the large majority of the Canadian people. In the first place the budget shows that Can- ada's financial and economic posi- tion is greatly improved since the Goyernment of the Right Hon. Mac- For the first time since the war the bud- 4 Bet balances; in fact Mr. Rohb esti- mates that the surpius of revenue over ordinary expenditure /will bs $67,500,000. The promise made ia the Speech from the Throne that there would be a raductiop in the tariff and in taxation has been made good by the acting finance minister's announcement of lower duties on agricultural and ddiry implements, mining, quarry, lumbering and log- ging machinery and fertilizers. reduction of the sales tax will cause satisfaction not only to manufactur- er and retailer, but to consumers | at large. The addition of provisions | and breddstuffs to the goods exempt- | ed from the sales tax is a wise move. A reduction in the Income tax would have been a most welcome announce- ment, but apparently the Govern- ment cannot at present see its way clear to make a cut here. The war burden must be borne a while longer through this levy. However, the tendency is towards reduction in taxation, and the King Government, by economy and good manWgement, | has been able to reduce the burden { of the people by about eight dollars per capita this year. Next year, further reductions in taxation may be confidently looked" for. - | ---------------- A WISE MOVE. The report that Mohandas /Gandhi, the Indian home rule leader, and some of his associates in that move- ment have been asked to attend a conference on Indian affairs to be held in London, England' marks a new departure by the British govern- ment in its dealings with India. The report has not as yet been definitely confirmed from a government source; but the advices which have come from India indicate that 'there is good foundation for it. The new move on the part of the government is undoubtedly a wise one, for it will provide the legislators and ad- ministrators who sit in their offices {in London with an excellent idea of the real problems which lié before them in the governing of such a country as India. The government of India By the British has never heen a very easy problem. The country is composed of so many different races and castes of people that it has been difficult to inaugurate policies which would be satisfactory to all. During recent | years, there has been a growth in | native education. The natives have become more. enlightened, and they | have had intellectual leaders rise up to put before them new thoughts in regard to self government.. Gandhi | is one of these leaders, and, in spite | of the fact that he has served a term | of imprisonment for sedition, reports | indicate that he is a man of high principles and some culture, a man who sees a future ahead of Indfa as a self-governing nation. His only trouble, apparently, is that his ideas are too far in advance of the Indian civilization, These things, however, have not been fully realized by those at home in England who have been charged with the responsibility of Indian ad- juistration. They have acted simply as bureaucrats from a dis- tance, giving orders to those 'in charge in India without realizing the real conditions in the country, and without any knowledge of local prob- lems nor' of the aspirations and {deas of the natives. Such know- ledge is essential in the governmént of any country, and particularly of a country which is broken up into 80 many different types of people as is India. It the report turns out to be cor- rect, and the Indian native leaders visit London and attepd such a con- ference as is suggested, it will be to the credit of the Labor govera- ment that it has been the first to take a much needed step forward in the management of Indian affairs. It is certain that no harm.can, come of the move, while the exchange of deas has every chance of being for e| ius the peace of a great power and {of the world. A 'prominent author { who has recently returned from Ger- many declares that "everyone talks of another great war that is to come, and you ean't seem to get it out | of their minds and they are desper-} ate--There is mo doubt that Ger- | many is banking on a war of recon- | quest of her shattered empire." | Wars of conqiest should be made | | a8 scarce by an enlightened civiliza- | tion as scientific exploration has | maag the dragons of ancient super- The dragon of warfare, | | stition. however, will materialize if its image lives in the minds of a nation. | Eventually, if Germany sees the dra- | gon plainly enough, she will con-| vince other nations of its reality, and | | the vision of lasting peace, which | | might be materialized with equal ease and much happier results, wil | fade away. | For the good of all the world | something must be dome to kill the | ghost of the next war in Germany's | | mind. The only way this ean be done | | 18 to fill the mind, of Germany with | the cleaner, saner influence of the | spirit of peace and democracy. NOTHING NEW. From childhood ome is told that | "there is nothing new under the sun." In a large measure he is told | the truth, but not the whole truth, | for the old is frequently dressed up in new form so as to appear to all | intents and "purposes really some- | thing new. Just now the financial | crooks have dressed 'up an old fraud | ! 50 that it looks like a new specula- | tive opportunity. The wireless telegraph and tele- | phone are in thelr infancy. The radiophone is in its experimental | stage. Every day somebody makes | new discovery which is heralded | aM bringing one or the other to per- fection. Immediately the inventicn is capitalized and stock is sold to the. gullible public. One sale succeeds | | the other in a rapidity that is amaz- | ing, for each new invention is so | great an improvement over anything | that bas preceded it that" the new Stock needs no argument. It's the old mining gohame and oil fleece in | a wireless-f6rm, that's all. So many millions of dollars have been invested in inventions that have lived but a day or a week that maga- zines devoted to wireless subjects have begun sounding a warning. In no way is there prospect of immense fortunes,.for the crooks who get the money spent very little of it, if any, on the development-of the mechan- isms they herald. : * INTELLIGENCE, | Some public school systems are substituting "intelligence tests" for the old-fashioned examinations. In Detroit, for instance, the intélligence test is applied to all new teachers, by order of the school board. There is a difference between book knowledge and intelligence--angd the intelligence test is a recognition ot/ that difference. An unschooled man may be, and often is, an intelligence as well as an educated mam because he picks up and absorbs and makes a part of his consciousness every lesson of experience; everything he reads' and everything of value that he hears. On the other hand, what is called education, or "schooling," is too often merely a piling up of facts in a brain, like furniture in a storage house, Or frequenfly, it is only "pouring in of facts, like water through a sieve. That is not educa- tion. : ; The furniture of the intelligent man's mind is arranged. It is not crowded or jumbled. The intelligent man often knows more of what is going on in the world than what is in books. The exceptionally educat- ed man knows both books and life, and book knowledge is valuable to him only so far as it interprets life.' It is well that some public school systems are demanding intelligence in teachers as well as the book learn- ing that can be obtained by cram- ming. If you look back you will find that the teachers who did you the most good were not those who drilled the most geography and arithmetic into your head, but those others to whom books were but guides in explorations of the wide ranges of life. | the starvation point in the summer ; | ed in continuing their calling in face | of "the activities of the enemy. . , . { The whole British industry is under | flooded with fish caught by foreign- | | and the continuous loss of it, injures | you. | brain work." 'putting its efforts into manufactur- than the magnificence which counts for excellence, and in this respect there is true and steady progression. Cunning artificers are at.wo in the Picture-world and fine artists, com- tinuaily. exploring and éxperimenting both with physical beauty and with mental suggestion. -- London DAily Telegraph. ¥ A Key Industry. We Should have come very near of 1817 if it had not been for the | daring which the North Sea fisher- | men, unarmed as they were, display- a cloud, and the fishermen, who know littl§ or nothing of fiscal theories, resent the manner in which our own markets are periodically | ers. They do not object to fair com- | | petition, but the competition, they ' claim, is not faif- The depreciation | | of the currencies on the Continent, | reacting on the first cost of boats, the expenditure on gear, and the rates of wages paid, constitute a ser- ious handicap to our own fishermen, | who have to support homes in a land | | where the cost of living is greater | and all the expenses of the industry are consequently on a much higher scale.--London Daily Telegraph, By James W. Barton, M.D, ------ Trying To Induce Sleep. I have often wondered if any sta- tistician has ever gathered together all the different suggestions for in- ducing sleep, Sleep is just as necessary as food, | the system. - But as I've mentioned before, the loss of a couple of hours, two or three times a week, will not hurt Now what about these sleep syg- gestions? You know a number of them; counting the sheep jumping over a wall, counting your fingers over one at a time slowly and methodically, hot pad to the feet, deep breathing and many more. I'm not going to suggest anything new, but I just want to outline the principle under- lying successful wooing of sleep. The principle is "Don't let your How can you prevent it working? Simply by slowly drawing the blood away to another part of the body. And that is the idea under- lying the hols used so success- fully in a sahatArium, With one person, a hot water bot- tle or electric pad is placed at his feet, and he is told to rest with his arms and legs slightly bent; not on the stretch. Another is given a bowl of hot soup and.advised to relax. For still another," a set of light exercises is prescribed, such as raising en the toes a number of times, or squatting on the heels: , These exercises are taken to the point of slight exfaus- tion. I believe you see the idea. With hot water bag or pad to the feét, the circulation is stimu- lated sufficiently to draw the bloo gently from the brain. With the hot milk or soup in the stomach, the blood goes in an increased amount to the digestive apparatus. You know how, after a substan- tidl meal, you feel heavy, sleepy in fact. It is because the blood is ing juices for digestion, and in the actual muscular action of the sto- mach. That is the reason that busi- ness men and students often take Just a light lunch at noon, as a heavy meal makes them heavy or mentally dull some time afterwards. And the exercise, if not taken too vigorously, draws the blood into the calf and thigh muscles and thus away from the brain. My suggestion is to use the one that fits your particular case or age. If you have a very poor circulation, and are getting up in years, the hot pad, or the hot 'milk or soup, is in- dicated. 9 If you are young the light exer- cise of raising on your toes, or squatting on your heels, is your best method. a EE -------- PRESS COMMENT he best, The officials of the Indian office and the secretary of state for India will learn much from the na- tive leadérs. They will be able to get to the root of the home rule agi- tation which has 'caused them so much perturbation. On the other hand, the Indians will learn much by their conference with those entrust- ed with the guidance of their affairs, and there ig wu strong possibility that this exchange of ideas' will result in a much better undérstanding on both sides of the problems which have to be faced. THE "NEXT WAR." If one repeats a statement often enough, he eventually believes it; no matter how incredible or undesirable it may be. The next step is that if a supposition is believed, it is Tikely Thus when the frightened man enters a house he knows to be haunted, he is sure A very sinister ghost is threaten " it you are not, you are not. is about all there is to it. Honesty Is an instinct. A man is honest for the same reason a woman blushes. fv igs 2 8 ; i ii gf £ | : ; | WHY THE WEATHER? DR. CHARLES ¥. BROOKS Secretary, + Tells How, ume , Clouds Do Not Float. While the cumulus cloud is held up by 4 vertical air current, other > types of clouds remain aloft in other ; The Greatest Collection of ~ BIBBY'S Men's and Young Men's Suits profit 'to make them matchless values at THE SHIRT STORE OF THE TOWN ways. Clouds do not float, their par- ticles are always tending to fall. The larger drops or crystals will. fall more rapidly because they have greater weight in proportion to their surface, and s0 encounter relatively less friction in falling through the air. Observe a high cirrus cloud, one of the delicate streamers marking the edge of an advancing cloud sheet. Such a cloud is typically curl- ed slightly, like a feather. The larg- er snowsparticles are dropping out of the advancing higher portion, leaving a long trail behind, usually in the direction from which the cloud is moving, and finally evapor- ating, Blurry masses of snow or rain may sometimes be seen drop- ping from a stationary lens-shaped cloud of water droplets. As long as conditions continue to favor conden- sation, the cloud will keep forming and replacing the particles that drop out. Similar is the case of a con- vectional cloud sheet occurring on the boundary between a cold and a moist, warm wind. The droplets keep settling gradually, either eva- porating or producing rain, but as) long as. condensation is maintained along the line of contact, the cloud keeps forming and so appears to re- main aloft. MONEY AT WORK Brief but Imporwmaat sans in Finance, Markets, Stocks, and Investments | In' 'September, 1021, about. five million men were out of work in this country. Can we prevent this from happening again? ~ -- Drastic swings in the business eycle are probably the biggest rea- son 'for. ugemployment. Why? Too much expansion leads to over-exten- sion, which is followed by collaphe. a - ; " ~ v : "| swings of the cycle stop Inthe City At These Prices Our Super-Effort in Value and Variety. : We're making a feature of this group this Spring We've had our makers concentrate on this effort in their choice of fabrics, patterns, models and in the excellence of tailoring refinements. We've placed a volume order on these three lines adequate to se- cure for us lowest cost and we're selling them at scantest margin of $25.00 -- $29.50 BIBBY'S A firat class farm of 100 acres, three miles from Kinguton; must be sold at omce te wind up an Estate; will sell at a sherifice to quick buyer. Farms so near the city are seldom in the market mow is your chance te got a farm well located at your owa price. This farm fis about square, therefore conveanlent to work; about 85 acres of chelee clay loam has been under cultivation. Money to loan on mortgages. ire Insurance in reliable com. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance 58 BROCK 8T., KINGSTON Phones 322J and 1787J. It business collapses, it means un- employment, On the other hand, moderate short of this dangerous'condition, and a quick recovery is made. 3 Can we keep the business cycle swinging moderately, and not have large waves of unemployment? It is possible. . If business men will analyze con- ditions so that they can tell when they are becoming strained, they will keep business upder comtrol. Then booms, with their consequent evils of depression and unemploy- 'ment, will be avoided. . ---------------- THE WIND. I asked if Spring were here. The leafless trees Shook wildly their solemn boughs in firm negation; And swiftly past a lone snowflake was borne: An unkempt spruce tree near, "A veritable tease, ~ Denying, too, winter's abbreviation, Flirted her heavy, ruffled skirts in scorn; While to my listening ear Across the leas A hollow, wistful moan made affir- mation ) mourn, : --G. A. WEIMER. There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others uncon- sciously when we walk uprightly. CUT That sadly I, for Spring, must longer 4 -- $35.00 You will find every too! we make is perfect in quality, workmanship, and lasting in service. We are sat- isfled to make only tools that prove satisfactory in every respect and our. charges are to your advantage. Bishop Machine Shop KING AND QUEBN STREE): This rapidly fatal disease of Young cattle is absolutely pre. vented by the use of Blackleg- Vaccine, when adininistered within the first six months of || life. We always have a fresh stock of this Vaccine in pm form, ©asy to use and sure in results, Or. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 343 'RAWFORD'S OAL QUARTETTE to sing about our me- thods of doing business. are in a position to know that every man who leaves an order for coal at this office receives a high grade article of fuel and is treated In a fair, polite man. T HE Coal Quartette like They a bE ER