MAY 17, 1924. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG "POOR CHICAGO. { to be slightly cheaper to own a house | » It 1s distressing to learn, from {than to rent one, all factors consid- | the mayor of that city, that Chicago's | ered, for the renter retalns at all finances 'will nat allow her to build | times the privilege of ridding him- | sewage disposal plants to deal with! self of his contract at the end of the | growing population' and that she is | Tease, and is therefore free to move | a therefore compelled to steal from |or stay es he chooses, whereas the 3 Busy Weeks, weak ts the volume of water which by inter- [ owner, if circumstances should re- stole h re DE re] national agreement is required to be | { X janie Bim lo moye Yand apar: a | Indian Family (costume singers) on | left in the great lakes and St. law.{ together from the shifting character | Monday, the Germanians (21 plece {rence watershed, . There is, however, | of a large part of the modern urban | orchestra) on Wednesday and Na- | another solution to the difficulty, | population, there is always the flue- | poleon's Funeral on Friday and | which the mayor has perhaps failed | tuation in the size and needs of the | Saturday, | to think of. There is nothing in the | family from decade to decade), may | . w nature of things, or in the United | find that at the time when he wants | Peaceful Annexation, States constitution, or in the Ver- sailles Treaty or the Dawes report, to leave there is a comparative stag-| July 4.--The mnigher we approach nation in the house market, and may | t0 annexation, the more the Fourt to require that Chicago should have a KINGSTON IN 1850 Viewed Through Our Files BIBBY'S Suit Sale We have placed on sale to-day about Ninety Men's and ng Men's Suits at prices that should clean up the lot in a hurry. 30 MEN'S AND > | | | You | " a N have' to keep his house empty and | of July is ¢elebrated in Canad 0 | less than four steamers, three Bri- before " unsold for a year or two Published Daily and Semi-Weekly hy THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 004 LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. l. M. Campbell ...... 3 A. Guild .. .. 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Flies keep a lot of people from worrying about something else, Time will cure 'everything, but some judges don't give enough time. Never count your chickens before they return from a friend's garden. i ------------------ Trying to look like a toothpaste advertisement is a fine way to go crazy. Some homes have' a restful air, and some are decorated by a daugh- ter who is "artistic." ------------ Jazz is popular because they can 3D ay the same piece over and you "don't recognize it. Some, men are so blamed lazy _ that spring fever can't make an im- . pression on them. = -- . It may be that dark-haired wo- men marry first. But light-headed _@nes marry oftenest, ------ When a married man eats break- Jast at a restaurant, you know who ds boss at his house. a ---------------------- : The average life of a coin is twen- ty-five years. That's what it gets for travelling so fast. And another reason why Eve did- n't use cosmetics was-hecause she didn't have any competition. . The headlines indicate that the Hist of hazardous occupations may yet include that of being a husband. ~ We wonder if Abraham and the Other old-timers im heaven scold ~ about the horde of aliens coming in. 'When the war is paid for, think 'what a nice time parliament will fave with the mew sources of reve- nue, 3 1 HC ------ Some men never amount to much, some manage by the grace of paven to get the right kind of iy er ---------- #. And yet many an ardent advocate pf democracy feels /offended if the ter doesn't show him proper de- ce. 2 rt ------ Woman's intuition is a wonderful ig, but it doesn't show up well Bb a bride uses it in making bis- i The reason ideas get fato some ads slowly is because they have ; wedge themselves in hetween pre- ER ---------- knocker is a despicable and a bore unless he happens to knocking the things you don't i ; ~ HE THAT PASSETH BY, AND MEDDLETH W 10 period of high-pressure demand due growing population" to deal with in the' matter of sewage disposal. Why fibt adopt a quota law for Chi- cago, just like the quota law of the United States and admit to the Windy (and Sewage-y) City only just so many new residents each year as she feels she can provide | European thought and are not like- | ties more valuable to us than ever, logical situation. It ought normally with sewage disposal? Or better still, make them bring the price of their own sewage disposal with | them? | "The idea need not stop at sewage | disposal. There . is grave reason to | suppose that 'Chicago cannot afford | to provide her new citizens with any | adequate protection against murder | and highway robbery; at any rate | they are not getting it. ' Why not charge new residents an admission | fee, part of it to be invested and the | revenue applied to the improvement of the police service which appar- ently cannot, like the sewage treat- | ment, be stolen from Canada? THE NEED FOR MORE GERMAN. | By the time the generation now | passing through school and college | begins to take an important share in | the intellectual and economic life ef | this continent, there will be a de- | cided shortage of linguists possessing a know,edge of German. This is evi- dent from the immense curtailment | of the instruction in German in near- { ly all ordinary schools, and from ths greatly reduced attendance in the German' department of the universi- ties. The shortage will not be feil immediately, for several reasons. The war, while stopping the manu- facture of German-readers and Ger- man-speakers in the ordinary way; probably manufactured for itself a good many such among the officers engaged in the actual fighting and in intelligence work; but that source of supply ceased in 1918. Then also, German commerce is now small com- pared with what it used to be, and aence the commercial demand for the lanuage is lessened; and the cutput of literary and scientific ideas in Germany, requiring attention in other countries, naturally fell off as the war progressed and is only now beginning to make a good recovery. But those who imagine that Ger- many has ceased to be an important factor in either the intellectual or the commercial life of the world deceive themselves greatly. On the commer- clal sige, the mere pressure of the repatations obligations would be en- ough, if there weré no other factors, to ensure that Germany must he a very important participant in inter- national trade for the next [fifty years. On the intellectual side, for all the weaknesses and unwisdom which were revealed by the war as being inherent in the German ment- ality, thé fact remains that in pure speculation the Germans have cun- tributed their full share for the last two hundred years to the progress to | ly to cease doing so merely owing to a defeat, and also that in Lhe orga- nization of systematie gclentific re- search they have long™ exhibited unique qualities 'of patience, cotla- boration and direction. Our better knowledge of the weaknesses of the German mind makes its strong quali- The wise student of to-day is the student who includes German in an important place among his outfit of languages. Some of the substitutes which have recently been pushed in- to public attention will be found to be a drug on the market ten or fif- teen years hence. -------- RENTING AND OWNING HOUSES. It is generally held by experts in investment in the city of Kingston that residemtial property kept for rental Puriosss does not at the pre- sent time bring in a net income suf- ficient to equal the yield from a bond. This estimate is based, o course, upon a valuation of the pro- perty at the price at which similar property sells whén bought by pur- chasers who propose to occupy it themselves. Looked at from another angle, this is equivalent to. saying that it is cheaper to remt in Eig ston than to own; and since th would imply that those who own thelr houses are foolish not to sell them te Somoats else and rent & house from a landlord is further explained that the tor which drives people into ownership is the tmpossibility of getting landlords to keep their rented property in first- rate condition. That there is some truth in these contentions will probably be admit. ted by anybody who has looked intd it has been since the close of the to militaly activity. But it is not a the housing situation in this city as| cashing in on it. An important element in the situ- | ation seems to be the practice, alto- | gether too common in this and simi- lar cities, of renting houses at an ab- normally low rental with the provi- so that the tenant shall keep up the repairs. This is an unnatural and uneconomie form of contract, in which both parties deceive them- selves, the tenant with the belief | that he is getting his house cheaper | than he is, and the owner into thinking that he is getting a better return on his inwstment than the actual facts wcuild show. For the tenant has absolutely 210 interest in keeping up the property, and will never perform any repairs except such as are indispensable to his im- mediate comfort; and he will not perform even those is his comfort can be temporarily assured by some other method. The property, in such circumstances, keeps on going from bad to worse, and after a dozen years of 'tenants' repairs" it reaches a condition in which it has to be completely overhauted or it will fall to pleces. The landlord has really saved little or nothing by leaving the repairs to the tenant, and the tenant has heen uncomfortable and dissatisfied for the last six years of his occupancy. There. is no form of property which will produce revenue for its | the citizens of Kingston were favored | from horizon to horizon, tish and ome American, left King- ston this morning, overloaded with parties of pleasure, to spénd a happy day in the land of steady habits. Four years ago such a thing was hardly thought of and certainly would have been scarcely tolerated by the great mass of the people. A Magnificent Display. July 13.--On Thursday evening by the most magnificent display of the Aurora Borealls or Northern Lights which it has ever been our fortune to witness. When our at=| tention was called to the phenome- | non, it had acquired its pure bril- | liancy and formed a perfect and most 'magnificent arch, extending nearly due east and west, and continued thus perfect and unimpaired for a quar- ter of an hour. One curious fact we observed, and which might be worth noting by astronomers, that the themometer outside fell six de- grees during the fifteen m.nutes, and immediately rose again after its disappearance, That Body of | owner without any exertion of man- agement on his part whatever. Ren] tal residential property requires a good deal of such exertion, and should bring in sufficient revenue to pay for such management in addition to all costs and to the fair interest on the capital value. House pro- | perty owned by the occupier is of course the ideal economic situation, and Kingston is fortunate in having a large proportion of its house pro- perty in that condition. But in the circumstances a considerable amount of renting is inevitable, and those who provide rentable accommoda- tion, and manage it wisely and hon- estly, are performing: an important public service. ------ A WORD ON GRAFT. Those who have grafting to do would be well advised to do it in transactions with well-established | and solvent concerns, rather than | with such as are likely to go into bankruptcy within the next few years. Bankruptcy has the unplea- sant result of making all the rec- ords of the business accessible to the public investigator, with consequenc- es which, as we have recently seen, may be extremely uncomfortable for those who have been drawing illicit commissions. Taking this matter of bank depo- sits, for example. Let it not be supe posed that the practice of taking mo- ney in exchange for the service of diverting public funds to a particu- lar bank is|a modern or Canadian invention, Frederick P. Gruenberg, formerly director of the Philadelphia Bureau of Municipal Research, de- votes an entire essay in the last num- ber of the Annals of tHe American Academy to the question of inter- est 'on public deposits, and points out that the collection of money by officials for the use of public funds was very common in former years in the United States. He cites a case of some ten years ago, when the treasurer of Coek County, Ill., was found to have retained for his own use $130,000 of the interest paid by banks for the deposit of the county funds. It is hard to blame the banks; they must have deposits, in order to carry on their business, and they can afford to pay a certain rate for them. If they find it neces- Sary to pay a part of that rate to a go-between rather than to the public authority which is the real owner of of the money, they sometimes elect to do so rather than lose the depo- sits. And the more they are in need of deposits, the more they will be willing to pay. '. . The fact that neither the benk nor the government inyolved in the re-|. cent Ontario transactions is now in the same hands as when the transac- tions took place gives the public an unusually good opportunity to find out what really went on. The dis- closures are extremely unpleasant. About the only consoling feature in the affair is that both the bank and the government were, as such, weak and inexperienced. A strong bank can get its deposits "without paying dishonestly for them; and a strong government can get better men for its officials and control them better. Soft collags are doomed, but don't throw them away. A little starch will make them just as uncomfor- table as any. y Pours By James W. Barton, M.D, The Short Cut. | You have seen your doctor about | your Xonsils and as they are in bad | shape it has been decided that they | should be removed. i You get the job done, and figure | that all your troubles of body and mind will now be over. Perhaps it has been the removal of some teeth, that pyorrhoea has ren- dered loose and almost useless. Mayhap it is the appendix which has been growling from time to time, and you have finally decided to get it removed. Now all these have perhaps been ne- cessary jobs. When the tonsils, which are really filters, get so full of waste matter, and also get so badly broken down "that they can't do a real job of filtering, even if they get rid of the waste already in them, then of course they are better out of your body. Buv tonsils that are in fair shape, may be do treated by a specialist that they may be saved to do more useful work in your body. Likewise with the teeth. If you have them scraped, and then keep them free from poisons by a ood mouth wash, you may not have to lose them. And the appendix? Well it would hardly be in order/for the surgeon to go into the abdomen from time to time and endeavor to massage that or- gan to hasten out ifs contents. What is my point? Most of our troubles come from that old enemy--overeating. You don't do enough work to justi- fy yourself in eating the big meals that you consume daily. I have no reference here to the man who works outdoors in the open air all day. Nor have I reference to those who indulge in athletic 'sports. Both are using their bodies, and have a right to eat. My point however is this. Your ton- sils, your teeth, your appendix, your liver give trouble and you undergo a surgical operation. Your togsils, teeth, appendix and some gall stonés perhaps, are removed. You think you are all squared away for the,rest of your life Are you? - Not by any means if you don't be more careful than you were before the operation. You should eat less food, proper combinations of foods, take more exercise in the fresh air and give that body of yours some thought. Carelessness and overfeéeding = will bring on congestion again, and you'll have catarrh, more bad teeth, more gall stones, and constipation. So don't think of the surgical oper- ation as a short cut to wonderful health. The operation may save your life all right, and should likely be per- formed, but your real health thereafter will depend upon yourself. : : MAY 17. While' Canada was keenly concern ed about the progress of higher educa-/ tion, during the earlier part of the last century there was an amazing apathy | concerning the education of the thild- ren, who were left to the mercies of under-paid and incompetent teachers, in school houses of the most primitive sort. On this day in 1871 the provipce of New Brunswick passed a bill by which it was provided with means to cope with the situation. The bil} called for free compulsory education. It was followed by bitter controversies, but the government remained firm for it was at last awake to the situation. 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