"CAPITOL . TO-DAY Thy Name Is Woman YEAR 91; No. 88. ; PRESSING FOR A SETTLEMENT Of Northern And Southern re od rary Deg PREMIER OF ULSTER Hes Been 1 And the Free Sate President Wants Him Replaced. Dublin, April 12.--The Free State is pressing the British govern- ment to expediate the settlement of the boundary dispute between Northern and Southern Ireland. Re- sumption of conferences in London is being held up by the illness of Premier Bir James Craig, of Ulster, and William T. Cosgrave, president of the Free State executive council, is 'represented as favoring the nomination of another representative to take Sir James' place. Failing an agreement at the con- ferences, the Free State is under- stood to have planned to 'sét up 'a boundary commission provided for an Anglo-Irish treaty, but without a single delegate from Ulster, 'the northern government having * thus far refused to appoint one. » " Ihe Miners' Vote. Loudon, April 12.--Official figures of the ballot taken by the Miners' Federation on the owners' offer of 4 minimum wage standard of 33% 'per cent. above the pre-war level, were made public yesterday, showing that comparatively a small majority voted in favor of rejecting the own- ers' terms. ; : alleged championship of the indus- trial and moneyed interests and be- cause of Premier Smuts' iron hand in quelling the Rand insurrection which developed from the big strike of miners two years ago. While the two parties would seem to have little in. common they find a link that binds them together in their united resolve to keep the natives from ris- ing in the industrial scale, with the result that the 5,600,000 blacks cut out of a total population of 7,000,- 000 regard the bond between South Africa and Great Britain as one of their safeguards. The South African party or the Government party, is a fusion of the progressive Dutch party led by Gen- eral Smuts as the political successor of General Botha, and the British group, led by Sir Thomas Smartt, Minister of Agriculture in the Smuts Government, the title of the South African party being adopted. The fusion took place before the last gen- eral election, in February, 1921. The South African party has had to fight an alliance of the National- ists and the Labor party continuous- ly since General Smuts' accession to power, and now this alliance is clos- er than ever by reason of the pact re- ferred to. The Nationalists are com- posed of Boer irreconciliables under General J. B. M. Hertzog, and the Labor party consists of a group al- most exclusively of men of British birth .or descent under the leadership of Colonel Cresswell. When the new parliament met after the election of 1921 the South African party had 74 representa- tives; the Nationalist party, 46; the Labor party, 13 and there was one Constitutional © Democrat. Since then, however, the Government's ma- jority has gradually dwindled in by- elections until the climax came last week, when the Government's candi- date was defeated by the Nationalist candidate in the Wakkerstroom by- election and the Gdvernment's ma- jority was reduced to three or four, Thereupon Premier Smuts announc- ed an early dissolution of the South African Parliament. . Murder Inspired by Kindness THE SOUTH AFRICAN 1 Not. a Crime In Switzerland GENERAL ELECTION Arouses More Than Ordinary Interest in England--How the Parties Stand. Geneva, April 12. --Fraulein He- lene Moeller has been exonerated of murder, in spite of the fact that she admitted giving her mother poison to put her out of the misery she was suffering as the effect of an incur- able malady. The woman was arrested after her mother's death and many rts i her men or Y yal ernicy 3 80 oli ported that Fraulein Moeller clearly pore : dministered the poison with the a far-reaching effect on the present friendly relations between the Union of South Africa and Great Britain. If the Government of General Jan Christian Smuts is defeated and a Nationalist Government, or a Na- tionalist-Laber Coalition Govern- ment, comes into power it is feared by many people that the work of General Smuts and his predecessor in the South African Premiership, the late General Louis Botha on be- half of the reconciliation of Boer and , Briton, may be undone, at least to a large extent. ; In the last general election in South Africa the motto of the Na- tionalist party was "South Africa a Republic," whereas the South Afri- can party's motto was "South Africa a Nation." With the defeat of the Nationalist party, whose leader then was and still is General Hertzog, the leader nominally abandoned the se- Gession - movement, and this, in the beltef of some pebple, paved the. way for the recent pact by which the La- bor party joined forces with the Na- tionalists to fight the Smuts Govern- ment. Whether the Nationalists would revive the cry of "South Africa a Republic" if successful at the polls is a. question that must The parliamentary committee on await developments, redistribution will be convened early The Labor party bases its opposi- next week before adjournment for tion to the Smuts Government on its the Easter recess. _ > . 1 her parent further suffering, and the public prosecutor ordered her re- leased. AN. IRONLESS SHIP 10 SAIL INTO BALTIC To Investigate the Effects of " Terrestrial Magnetism Upon Navigating Instruments. Reval, Esthonia, April 12.--An ironless ship will sail forth into the Baltic this spring to investigate ef- fects of terrectrial magnetism upon navigating instruments. Capt. Von Garnet, an Esthonian, has construct- ed Cecilie without a pound of mag- netic metal. Even cooking utensils on sailing' ships are of alyminam, and table knives are of bronze. SP ------------ A bill is now before the Prince Edward Island legislature to change the rule of the road from turning to the left, to turning to the right. feeling that it was her duty to save 7 THE CHANGELESS EMPIRE. WRITTEN FOR THE WHIG BY ARTHUR HUNT CHUTE. To hear certain alarmists, during United Kingdom, was to imagine that 'the end of Britain. . ! > the last political upheaval in the a Labor government would mean Ramsay MacDonald came to power, but Britain's bugles, at reveills, still echo round the world. ~ Bocialists and Laborites are in the seats of Stephen's, but the Union Jack files on Hong Kong.' the mighty at St at Bermuda, Gibralta, Malta and . | Adter the break-up of the last conference between Poincare and Lloyd George, the outlook seemed hopeless. The entente was strained nigh to breaking, while ancient rumors of "perfidious Albion" were heard again upon the continent. In a panicy world, with the franc plunging downward, and ever downward, France has been like one beset on every hand by tempest and by raging sea, but as she looks across the troubled water, there is one rock that stands, serene, inviolate, and unmoved--that rock is Britain. . Reterring to our foreign policy with France, we may in truth declare, : "Where Britain was, she 1s." Ministers may come and go. Premiers may rise and fall. 'Ramsay MacDonald, Baldwin, Bonar Law, Lioyd George may strive for changing policies. But back of each, and all, alike, there stands the Changeless Empire. » at the gathering gloom, the to mind an eternal. . " To-night, I hear the "last post" sounding in oge of our far-flung r 2 "The British Empire is shifting and changing," they tell us. clear note of that British bugle empire that has taken to itself something of the timeless is the Britain represented by red upon the Mercator's Projec- that shifts and changes. But there is also the invisible Britain, the age to age, whose citadel is in the hearts of men. 7 (Continued on Page Three.) ily B KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1924. 3 7 4 tish TH E BATTLE AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. Criminal. 4 The Way Is Plain-- Half-Bearted Measures Are Fatal--Preveation a Certainty--Neglect Is Don't be waiting to see what others do. Act and think for yourself. J - Every man and woman know, even if they refuse to realize the awful danger of tuberculosis. There must be no half-hearted measures. Every aspect of the problem must be faced and fought bravely. en Are you sure your milk supply Is free from the infecting germs of tuberculosis? Are you sure that your meat supply is right Sma and that every precaut! an infected beast is sold unconsciously on our market ? Remember, it takes an expert to. ---- .diagnose tuberculosis in cattle, on is taken to see that mo meat of - Perfect organization of every force at our command is necessary if we are to combat the White Plague. We are liable to attack from various sources, but our preventitfve measures are more than sufficient to combat the evil if we will only use them. With eo large an amount. of time and space now given to the problem of tuberculosis there is great danger that the discussion become a maze of technicality, and the real end and object be overlooked. When all is said and done, what do we want ? The answer is treatment, all else leads to this. treatment of whom ? Not the rich, nor the well-to-do, they can, and will, look after themselves. earner and the poor with dependents to keep who are the problem itself. Again, It is the wage Most will agree, leaving aside the matter of diagnostic clinics and sanatoria for -the present, that the essentials for probable cure or restored usefulness are, rest, good food, fresh air, sunshine and, not- least, freedom from worry, It sounds well, no doubt ,and adds to the doctor's reputation for wisdom, to tell the father of three children (an actual case), the oldest #leven, no money in the bank, no resources, that he must rest for a longer or shorter period, that he must have a bright airy room, milk eggs, meat and other expensive food, ahd above all that he must not worry. Is it not hypocritical and cruel to tell him so ? We know, and he knows, that manna no longer 'falls from heaven, and that the landlord, the butcher and the grocer all have troubles of their own. Wha likely his own executioner, (Continued on Page 7.) t happens ? As any man would, he works on, a danger to all, and WOMAN ATTIRED AS MAN UNDER ARREST Said to Be Wanted in Several U.S. OCitiés--Bogus Cheque Charge. Hartford, Conn., April 12.--The Hartford police yesterday arrested Ethel Kimball, about !thirty-five years old, who is said to be wanted in Boston and other cities. Informa- tion was received' from Massa- chusetts that the woman was in this city. Detective John F. Madigan found her dressed jn male attire, It is said the Kim whose home is in, man, and has been ¢ times. Pearl A. of Parsonvil Maine, claimed to have married "Mr." James W. Wilson," the name given by the Kimball woman. A young man, who has been liv- ing with the.two.women in a local rooming house, was also held for questioning. The police are holding the three on charges that they have passed worthless cheques in several cities, - The Kimball woman at first fin. sisted she was a man, but later admitted she was -->a woman. To strengthen the masculine Impres- sion she sought to make use Jboth of smoking and chewing tobacco, The young man, who said he was Edward Hill, a nephew of the Hill woman, told the police his aunt mar- ried "Mr. Wilson" in New Britain last month. al RECOGNIZING LEADER : OF GROUP OF TEN In Ontario 'Legislature and Will Pay Him Salary as Such. Toronto, April 12.--Premier Fer- guson In the legislature yesterday afternoon received second reading to his bill to amend the Legislative Assembly Act, which provides that for.the purpose of distinguishing in- dividual groups in the House all leaders of groups of ten or more shall qualify as opposition leaders and be entitled to such salaries. The bill amends the act introduced by the Farmer Government during its first session, which ' provided that groups of fifteen or more should 'receive such recognition.' -------- THOUGHT DEAD NINE YEARS, Is in Sanitarium + in , Amherst, N.8,, April 12.--Joha O'Donnell, a member of the Black Watch Regiment, who was report- ed missing after the Battle of the Loos, declared killed in the official casualty lists, and for the past nine years regarded by his family as dead, is'alive and a patfent in a san- N. B. War Veteran itarlam in England, according to a}. letter received from him by his bro- ther, Patrick. O'Donnell, under- ground manager for the Maritime Coal, Railway and Power: Company at Joggins. The supposedly dead mau is recovering from loss of mem- ory sustained when shell-shocked at Loos. : Premier MacDonald intends to suggest a trip to Paris over the Eas {HANGING WAS | UNDER DEBATE In the House of Commons on Friday Ahternom. IRVINE _ RESOLUTION Ottawa, April 12.--A debate on the abolition of capital punishment in the House of Commons yesterday gave the moralists and sentimental. | ists, headed by the Rev. W. H. Ir-; vine, Labor member for East Cal-| gary, who initiated the debate, an opportunity to put forth thelr views in favor of abolishing ' the death penalty for murderers. A corrective to Mr. Irvine's views was admin- istered by two members from Que- bec, notably the Hon. Charles Marcil, Bonaventure, and Paul Mercier, Lib- eral member for Westmount, the lat- der of whom impressed the. House with an eloquent, thoughtfui and well-reasoned argument. Mr. Irvine presented his argument agalanst the death penalty from the "historic and scientific view." Mr. Mercier favored no change in the law, and gave substantial rea- sons for the faith that was in him. In this he was supported by the Hon. Charles. Marcil. However, the Hon. George P. Graham, minister of railways, Hance Logan, Liberal mem- ber for Cumberland, and A. R. Mec- Master, independent member for Brome, favored the abolition of the death penalty on straight moral and humanitarian grounds, as well as on spiritual. W. D. Euler, Liberal, member for North Waterloo, also favored the resolution, and "was supported by several Progressives. Being private measure members of all parties felt at liberty to ex- press themselves freely, and views of cabinet ministers as well as of pri-i vate members were found to be widely at variance. \ Mac- kensie King and®Opposition Leader Arthur Meighen found themselves in agreement in opposing the bill, while Robért Forke, Progressive leader, and Miss Agnes MacPhail, the only woman member of the house, argued against capital pun- fshment. Two representatives of the department of justice in house 'were in opposition, Hon: J. Murray, solicitor-general, 'oppos- ed capital punishment, Hom. T. A. Crerar made a strong speech a support of the bill. The vote cut across party lines. % By a vote of 92 to 29, the Com- mons at midnight defeated the bill. British farmers organize to supply home bacon market." 000400000000 00000 ry FR 2 as MISS AGNES MACPHAIL * "A PEACE DELEGATE Will Represent Canada at Women's Congress at Washington. » New York, April 12.--Caneda's only woman member of Parliament Miss Agnes MacPhail, will be one of the women from fifteen countries who will shortly meet at Washington from May 1st to 7th to discuss in- ternational peace at the fourth in- ternational congress of the Wo- men's International Lesgue for Peace and Freedom under the chair- manship of Miss Jane Adams, An American committee of pro- nd in New York the guests will be entertained at the home of New York women who are inter- ested In furthering the cause of in- : ternational peace. Besides the women from the British Commonwealth of Nations, representatives from Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and Australia, more | than 40 delegates are coming from the heart of Europe, from France, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Bulgaria, Austria and Italy. TRIED TO BREAK INTO NAPANEE'S TREASURY Harold Cole Traced and Ar- rested by the Chief of Police. Napanee, April 12.--A bold at- tempt at daylight burglary took place yesterday, between noon and one o'clock p.m. in the municipal buildings on Market Square. The would-be burglar tried to force the lock of the door in the lobby which gives entrance to the town treasur- er's office. From the appearance of the jamb, where a plece: of iron had been inserted with the evident in- tention of driving off the hasp that held \the bolt of the lock, the oper- ator, e, would sbe led to believe, had the tri®k before and knew exactly what he was about. By-the- way, the plece of iron used was se- cured in the cellars of the town hall buildings. The bold robber must have known the habits of those who have their offices in buildings for the premises were deserted, all hav- ns gone for dinner from twelve un- one o'clock. ? As luck would have it, Town Trea- for | Whig CAPITOL O'BRIEN SISTERS VAUDEVILLE LAST EDITION News off the Wires || In Condensed Form The Right Rev. Monsignor Blair, Winnipeg, is appointed president of the Catholic Church Extension So- clety. He is a native of Stratford, Ont. Wesley Albert Guppy, eighteen- months old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Guppy, Temagami, is dead as the re- sult of drinking a quantity of oil of wintergreen. ! Compulsory vaccination of all chil- dren attending the Port Elgin pub-| lic and high schools who have not been vaccinated within the past seven years, is ordered. Ross Mann, Toronto, aged twenty | years, an employee of the Royal Bank, is dead. He had gone to Syra- cuse on a visit, where he was stricken with appendicitis and died low- ing an operation. Leo (Kid) Roy, champion feather- weight of Canada, successfully de- fended his title at Montreal Friday night when Tommy Nee, Boston, quit in the sixth round of his scheduled ten-round bout. The private bills committee of the Ontario legislature completed its sessional work on Friday by elim- inating a controversial clause in the act to amend the Pharmacy Act which would have made it com- pulsory for the directorate of all the fled graduates of College of Pharmacy. 3 COMES FROM POLAND Feodosia 8kiba Arrives With Young Daughter of Her Future Husband. To have travelled all the way from Warsaw, Poland, for the purpose of meeting her future husband, Michael Biridchik, barber at Sharbot Lake, was the experience of Miss Feodosia Skiba, who arrived in the city on |train, it was a pathetic sight. Friday afternoon at four o'clock by Canadian Naticnal Railway. The bride-to-be was accompanied by Maria Burinchik, aged twelve years, a daughter of the groom, whose first wife died some years ago. The chill had not seen her father, from whom she was parted when two weeks old, and when they met at the Canadian National Raellway station on Satur- day morning. at eight o'clock upon @ arrival of the Sharbot Lake "It is expected that the wedding will take place in Kingston on Mon- dey morning, On Saturday morn- ing, the groom was busy getting a marriage license. The two arrivals were ticketed direct from Warsaw to Kingston by the Canadian National Railway of- fice, Princess str@et. When the-twa, ladies arrived at the Canadian Na tional outer station they were met by a "Canadian National official and driven to the home of Mr. Stephen- son," shoemaker, Wellington street, where they will remain over the week-end. The two left Warsaw five weeks ago ,and went by railway to Ham- burg, boarded tLe White Star liner Canopic for Canada on March 24th, and arrived in Halifax on April 9th. On Frid afternoon a Whig re- presentative 'had the pleasure of meeting the new arrivals, who spoke through their interpeter, Mr. Ste- plhenson. The bride-to-be stated that the shoes which she was wearing cost thirteen million marks. A During the war she sald that conditions wera very bad and that for twelve weeks they never had a taste of bread of any kind. There were no horses in the war days to do the work on the farm and as a result the lanl was nothing more than pasture. She stated that forty pounds now "would cost four million marks. Speaking about her trip to Kingston, she said that she had been well used and spoke in highest terms of the treatment which she had received of bread incorporated drug stores to be quali- [- T0 WED A WIDOWER Timmins Fire Ohlef CLEAN RECORD { OF LIBERALS 'Leader Sinclair Bound to Show Up Hon. .T. W. McGarry. TORY REGINE OF 1919 Needs the Lineight And the Liberals Will Press For Full Enq, Toronto, April 12.--By moving in public account committee last" Wed- nesday for the summoning before that body of former treasurer Peter Smith, Hon. T. W. McGarry, essist- ant treasurer, C. A. Matthews, and former deputy treasurer Sproule, W, E. N. Sinclair, K.C., Liberal leader, assured the people of the province that at least an effort is to be made to go Into the whole of the appar- ently dark facts surrounding pre- vious Ontario government financing. Assiduous in bringing to the light: the misdeeds of Hon. Peter Smith and the old U.F.0. Government, the feeling was fast gaining ground in Liberal circles, in the legislature a® all events, that Conservative govern- ment examiners were not going to give attention to the days of Treas- urer McGarry, that the facts of some $32,400 of profits "on a Me- Garry loan, presented by Awditor G. T. Clarkson, warranted. There was fear as the session drew to a close that public accounts committee's in- vestigations were to be abruptly snapped short, leaving the F. O. regime in utter disgrace, and the record of the Hearst Conserva-; tive government unsullied so far a the facts brought out to the publi were concerned. Disgust at Revelations. vd wi Among legislative members thers. 3 is at the present utter disgust at th revelations as affecting the admin istration of the immediate past and' considerable questioning as to what happened in the days of { Hearst government, Mr. McBarpy stated on oath he didn't get a nickle in commissions. Liberals are wond- ering it anything was realized out of the Home Bank financing for the of the "grand old 1 mon ¢ of 1919 in connection with Mr. Sinclair,is now moving for en quiry. + As to political "effect, public ac counts committee this year has ob- viously ruined the standing of one party. What {t may do to the other party. the Liberals' quizzing of wit. nesses remains to be seen. At any rate the Liberals emerge as the one remaining panty of absolute and un- doubted clean record, with nothing behind but a credit of efficient and clean administrations under form- er Liberal premiers, and with a house following, which, small though it be, is of unimpeachable in-' tegrity. It is reasonably certain that. when the next session rolls around ft will have added recruits from amongst the right thinking element who still represent the U. F. O. forces. 3 + . Is Sued for Slander Timmins, April 13.--Alleging that he had been slandered by Fire Chief Borland here, J. P. Bartieman has entered action against the chief for $1,500 damages, the writ been filed at Cochrane, The words complained of are stated to have been uttered at a cribbage party last having fall at which time the plaintiff was. a candidate for municipal honors mm Timmins. Mike Kulasky, aged forty-five, of Augusta avenue, Toronto, was ar from the Canadian National and the White Star officials. rested Friday night on a charge of ° attempted suicide by hanging. t How SOME WOMEN love OLD THINGS; . Old FURNITURE; old FINERY, _ 0ld LOVE-LETTERS. And how SOME MEN love Their old PIPES.-old COATS, 0ld CRONIES. The DIFFERENCE Between MEN and WOMEN and Love 0dr oll tings, seer to be That MEN only stick 'o things Ph But WOMEN often want to stick To ANY OLD THING thet HAS Given theni pleasure. It takes a BRAVE WOMAN 'Caporigte. 190 Premier Syndlests Ion "You Said It, Marceline!" MARCELINE #ALROY On "Antiques es To DISCARD, or else A young and THOUGHTLESS one. » Some women's LIVES seem Like their LIVING ROOMS, A collection of ODDS and ENDS Picked up at RANDOM And jumbled together; For it's ONLY when a woman' knows OBJECTS of ART from OBJECTS of ARTIFICE, ana GENUINE ANTIQUES from " MADE TO ORDERT TT MADE That she knows ENOUGH _ { To throw out the WORST To make room for the BEST. ~- old U. idle