. ¥ THE DAILY BRITISH * go _WHIG THE BRITISH WHIG 918T YEAR. hed Daily and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. J. M. Campbell «evs President Leman A. Guild .. Editor and ng-Director Publ TH TELEPHONE Business Office Baltorial Rooms SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally KEdition) One year, in eity One year, by mail One year, to United States Semi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mail, cash Ome year, to United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: F. Calder, 22 St. John St.,, Montreal *F. Ww Thompson, 100 King St. Ww, i 'Toronto Letters to the Editor are published onl over the actual name of the Writer. Attached is one of the best job printing officey in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the BC A Audit Bureau of Circulations A ee ee -- There is a destiny that shapes our ends, avoid grade crossings as we may, Stt---------- The man in the village who calls it "perspiration" is a travelling salesman. ments The back-to-thefarm movement will care for itsélf about the time three beans sell for a nickel. Class consciousness, is what you have when a twin six splashes mud on your new trousers. ------------ Anybody can be a good conversa- tionalist now if he knows how to dis- cuss bobbed hair, Correct this sentence: "There's | the old purse," sald the husband gaily; "take what you want." ---------- The season for Japan's exclusion of Chinese immigrants is simple, She knows she can lick China. ------ A labor shortage means that there are seldom more than twelve loafers to watch a man at work. $7.50 10 rural offices, $2.50 Roa t 3 tuk 3 .00 | call the commissioners blessed, but WHERE WILL IT END? [the frets, alarms and hurry of civi- The Utilities Commission, as we |lization. have it in Kingston, is a fearful and wonderful thing. It refused occupy rooms in the city buildings--whers it ought of right to be located--because such quarters were not ornate or expen- sive enough for it. It compels the tax payers to tra- vel all the way to the very foot of the city to pay their tribute. But the commission provides a recompense: It spends--without con- to sulting the tax payers--thousands of | een in previous ages. dollars in the erection of palatial of- fices, so what matters how far the | citizens must walk? Nay, it does more; its generosity knows no limits. It paves several down town blocks in the vicinity of the tax collecting edifice so that those who possess cars may come and go with greater ease. More thousands of the people's money "invested'" at the whim of this "'care- ful" commission. Then, to make the ordinary utilities' patrons happier still, it in- creases the rate to the small uses of light. The citizens may not rise up to when the opportunity comes they will rise up all right--and call them something else. lin its long history, but the utilities commissioners who have foisted this extravagant and totally unnecessary burden on the people of this city have exceeded the limit. They will realize the fact when the next elec- tion takes place. THE WRONG PAVING STREETS. ed paving the most. the facts? Two or three streets parallel to Frontenac have already been put into first class shape, de- or upper Princess street are genepal thoroughfares. Already two streets leading to the eastern limits of the and Bagot. Yet the city council, on the advice of a few interested par- ties, authorizes the paving of Rideau street, only one side of which is completely built wp, not be taken to Kingston has suffered many things | But what are | to spite the fact that none of them are | enera o nse | general thoroughfares, in the sense |, Hague agreements? that King street west, Union street, HUMANENESS A LOST ART. Humanity lost much during the Great War, but that which should most deeply wound its pride was the | of the belief in its own humane- | Once upon a time, and that | time was not long prior to 1914, i men believed that real progress was being made toward abolition of war. { They fondly flattered themselves that they were not as other men had | They were | more humane, they thought. | They devised the Hague confer- énce, which with full and free repre- | sentation of the nations, discussed pleasingly and with some show of | [conviction rules for the mitigation jof the cruelty of war. To be sure, !war had never been cruel, that is, comparatively, up to that time. War had proceeded by certain rules of [ honor and chivalry. There were pre- | judices against the use of chain-shot {and agreements to grind to an edge | | not more than a few inches of the tips of sabres. And the Hague con- | ference went at it systematically to | | codify all the rules of safeguarding | | humane principles of warfare. It | | made agreements about dropping | explosives from balloons and air- {ships; about ruthless destruction of | | property; about the rights of non-| | | | | combatants; about calibre of guns | {and construction of missiles. There | existed a peculiar horror against | [the use of poisonous or asphyxiat-| | ing gases. In fact this latter method | {of warfare was regarded as too bar- | | barous to be contemplated by our [refined civilization. To be sure, the | [Chinese in ancient times had employ- | led it. 'They had dropped over the | 0 e ' rould have | ae oa ve hi ig would have 1 ,tilements of their walls kettles | > jg os 0'the Reyne of Ri- filled with burning tar and sulphur, | ay, Kron enac and some less m= comparatively harmless form portant streets if these streets need- | of | {chemical warfare but regarded by | {the highly civilized modern reader | | of fiction with peculiar horror. These | | Chinese of olden times had no claim | be called civilized. Then came the war. Who cared What me- historian they are a mine of informa- tion and the chief source of details concerning lives and achieve- ments of that great host of courag- €ous. men and women 'who wrested Canada from ths Indians. They were written, naturally, with a view the SUMMER UNDERWEAR SPECIAL $1.25 PER SUIT to enticing workers for the missions | and paint a glowing picture of the { consolations of spiritual progress, It was through the Jesuits Relations that the founders of Montreal first ony on that now famous island. By James W. Barton, M.D, Your Heart, BIBBY'S Headquarters for SUMMER UNDERWEAR SPECIAL $1.25 PER SUIT Trunks, Club Bags, Suit Cases, Wardrobe Trunks, etc. | conceived the idea of settling a col- I have been very much interested | in the different methods vogue for examining the heart. For instance the taking blood pressure dusing excitement, after a hurried walk, or again after the receiving 'of depressing news, can all so change the readings that now in! of the | they are not worth much in trying | to ascertain the strength of the heart, Then the slight murmur that is so | boys and It is of And then often found in growing girls often alarms parents. no significance whatever. You naturally ask murmurs? What about a heart where the valve doesn't close quite proper- ly, and thus the heart has to pump twice, that extra blood that has flow- ed back through the small leak? As the United States and Canada what about real | were so far from the seat of activi- | ties during the war, medical officers | were not allowed to take a chance cn a heart with a murmur. | Accordingly good rugged fellows, | working every day in the week, | many of them engaged in athletics, were rejected on account of a heart murmur, What about the European na- {thod previously held in abhorrence | tions? | | | | was not seized upom if it promised | anything of effectiveness? What re- | the past was not, by the exercise of | modern skill and genius, raised to] a degree of cruelty never dreamed | of before? And the result is that | in the discussions of preparedness | | there is now no mention of humane | Well, some of them were hard put for men and had to send everybody | [finement of cruelty ever known in| that could carry a rifle, nevertheless city have been paved, viz., Montreal | they soon learned that many of these men with murmurs, showed no more distress than other men under the | sane conditions, Now this should be of great com- fort to you if you have | dr om th r is to be | for the army but also for insurance. other streets, much more in need of | 10.08 opped from' the al tion. Surely the leading arteries of traffic should have precedence. Up- per Princess street is a part of the i | ibiti i i - provincial highway from Toronto to| 2B bition of chemical industry in : | dicated that chemical experts Montreal, and along it must pass all | r t Ww the tourist travel this summer. No. directing their researches toward nly b; o taini w attention, were' put into safe condi. | 'ited only by the sustaining power of the airship. The recent meeting | of the American Chemical Society in New York City followed by the are It simply goes to show that if you keep your entire body in good phy- sical condition, see that you get pro- been told | ; | that you have a heart murmur, and | As sald before, objection would | methods. The weight of the bombs | have perhaps been rejected not only | this procedure if | For Sale We have some attractive bars gains in city property. A good list of farms and garden lands. class Fire Insurance, first company, | Money to loan on mortgages. per food and a reasonable amount | of exercise, that'you shouldn't really | Because if | shape your | worry about your heart. your body dis in good museular system will be likewise in good shape, afd so your heart which T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance 68 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phones 322J and 1797J. If you would like to see something real MEN'S and classy in YOUNG MEN'S SUITS we're at your service. Masterpieces of tailor's art. All are beautifully tailored in 'fine quality fancy Cheviots, Wor- steds and Scotch Tweeds. A regular $40 and $45 value. Bibby's June Special 35" HOTEL In Public Service Simce 1784. The Creative Machine Shop This machine shop is not alto. gether merchanical. Our equipment represents the most modern mechan. ism, yes--but we employ men whg are capable of Suggesting and exe« cuting shop work of distinctive qual« ity. Bishop Machine KING AND QUERN §T Sop the perfection of war materials as Shite 4s youn fone to wii into much as to the service of the arts be as w ment 8 ap-1 ot peace. All sorts of predictions M. BOHAN, PROPRIETOR, KINGSTON. after all is only muscle--although not under the control of the will-- | -------- will likely be strong enough to take | Y You can't tell by looking at a girl bow many insulting things she can think up after she is married. -------- That poets' union in Russia will mean little to thp outside world un- til it strikes for fewer consonants. Note to graduates: "Learn to la- bor and to wait" means to learn to labor for $6 a week and wait 'for a raise. proval of visiting autoists; rather, it has been left in a condition s0 bad that mo visitor will ever want can avoid it, worse, King street west is not much better. It will be a lucky thing, indeed, if the corporation is not called upon to pay damages to many car and truck owners before the season is over. Union street is even Berlin is threatened with a beer famine due to strikes by brewery workers. German frightfulness re- acting. If Heinle is hungry, it must con- sole him to know that the rich are willing to gt civilized nations care for him. You can't imagine how much ima- @ination a woman hag until she be- gins to explain why little Willie wasn't promoted. Honesty begins at home, also. Those who wouldn't molest a gro- cer's display are first to steal from the farmers' flelds. ---- Chicago's '"'precoclous" slayers face 48 counts in the indictments brought against them, but murder - would tell the story. It is: clabmed that an 'ape never falls in love but once. Our divorce records, then, uphold Bryan's argu- ent that we're no kin to the mon- keys. a Fe ur ------------------ A calendar fixing a week of five days is proposed in Russia. That would have something to recommend it, provided the weekly pay for seven Mays were not reduced. \ A California indigent mother wants to sell her small son to the highest bidder so as to insufhim a "home of ¥uxury." That might be no kindness to the child. Pr-- . c---- Since the reichstag has approved the German government's action in accepting the Dawes report, it looks a bit like Germany has concluded that it is impossible to stand' off Payments much longer. AAA AAA RA Ac mn ond BIBLE THOUGHT WITHHOLD NOT THOU THY TENDER MERCIES FROM ME, O LORD: LET THY KINDNESS AND THY Before it is too late, the couneil might well consider holding up the Paving of Rideau street until the other streets mentioned are attended to. Let the main thoroughfares be first put into shape before less im- portant streets are paved, ---- THE SIMPLE LIFE, It must be a wonderful experience to push on into the Arctic regions until the northern lights are seem to the south. But Donald McMillan, Arctic explorer, who reports such a feat, gave the native Eskimos a glimpse of greater wonders to them than their flaming skies and crack- ling atmosphere were to him. In an uncharted tract near Baffin Land be showed the tives motion picture scenes of crowded cities, "colleges, street cars and battleships." And the Eskimos found these wonders 80 much more fascinating than their own flaming skies, 1ce floes, spout- ing whales, polar bears, seals, wal- rus and muek oxen that they wept, Mr. McMillan relates, when he fold- ed up his apparatus and the won- drous pictures lived before their eyes no more. Some of them were eager to follow him {o' the southern land of mar- vels, ignorant of or regardless of the fact that others of their race have lamented the day when they yielded to the lure and adventured into the soft, fair country far to the south. The Eskimos who have come down to be looked at in world's fair "vil lages" have not only pined for their igloo and kayak, for the drink of hot blood from the seal, for the primi- tive northern life in general and the continuing cold, but have usually perished from tuberculosis or the flu or some other white man's dead- ly ailment. Even those who escap- ed suffered keenly from nostalgia and were eager to return to their Arctic home. CHMmatic conditions become a part of a man's lite and when they are exchanged too radi- cally nature itself is apt to rebel. This is especially true in the case of primitive races accustomed to the RU CONTINUALLY PRE- SERVE ME.--Psl 40:11, simple life in a quiet land, far from |are made as to the possibilities | . nating the cre of ships an ve to travel over it a second time if he | : Ws of ships and even |areas of an enemy's territory. i y Bp city. | It 1s a disgrace to the ci ¥y | In the matter of man's inhumanity jo man, the world seems to be mak- { | | | | | of suffocating entire armies, extermi- blotting out the inhabitants of vast ing rapid progress. KINGSTON IN 1850 Viewed Through Our Files The City Elections. January 4.--These civic contests commence on Monday, and will be continued all that day and the day following. ' So much excitement has been rarely seen as is now exhibited in Kingston, Without taking un lue credit, the city is indebted to the British Whig for the present stir. At the time it commenced to direct public attention to the subject of the coming elections, scarcely a single man of respectability would allow his name to be mentioned in connec- tion with the city council, and now, the first men in the city are eager for office, Nothing like a little ex- citement, The New Medicine. January 22.--Our columns of to- day contain an advertisement from Mr. Kelly of Gaspe, of the wonder- ful properties of his Cod Liver Oil, now on sale in Kingston by Mr. Charles Brent. It 1s not our prov- ince to bolster quack medicines; but Cod Liver Oil is not precisely a quack medicine, though doubtless more is said of it than is precisely fact. Let this be &s it may, whoever believes in the efficacy of this new medicine and wishes to try it, can now-depenti upon obtaining it pure, as manufactured by Mr. Kelly, who deposes to the truth of his state- 'S ByB June 10th. On this day in 1611 the first of those remarkable documénts, the Jesuits Relations, was written at Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal, the quaint Nova Scotia town. Father Biard end Father Masse were its authors. The Relations consisted of a detailed account of the life of the country 'th those earliest days, and each year upon their arrival in Paris they were published and distributed among those of wealth and outstand- ing deyotion. Forty andual volumes care of you all right. You see, notwithstanding all our methods of examination, blood pres- sure, appliances, stethoscope, and the ocardiograph tracings of the heart beat, the great thing about the whole matter is just this. How do you feel? Do you get out of breath easily? Can you do as much work as the other fellow? I mean ordinary manual work without get- ting out of hreath sooner than he does. I believe you can see my point. This does not mean that you will play tennis, basket ball, or other strénuous games, but that "Wou can get along and do all the dinary things of life without being afraid of your heart. | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES ¥. BROOKS tary, American Meteorologioal} Beary Boctety, Tells How. Spring Temperatures of 1024. The spring of 1924 has been mark- cloudy weather. On the north At- lantic coast, temperatures below normal have prevailed, especially during April and May. The South and central plains were cooler than normal in March also. Southern truck crops have consequently been delayed, and are likely to be less in advance of northern spring vege- tables than usual. On the Pacific coast, in the Rockies, and northern plains, however, April and May temperatures have been above nor- mal. The Why of this particular weath- er is rather hard to discover. uUge might say that May was cold in the northeast because of unusual cloudi- ness and because of the late melting of snow and ice during April, but that merely refers the matter to April. In the absence of definite in- formation, only the pure speculator will look far afield and try to fix the blame on the Gulf Stream, possibly warmer than normal, or the solar constant which is lower than usual. A warmer Gulf Stream would tend to lower the pressure south of New England and the Maritime Prov s while the lower solar constant would favor Jess heating and expan- sion of air in the South, and in con- sequence, a southward encroach- ment of northeastern high pressure areas. A lowering of pressure over the Gulf Stream and a southward shift of high pressure areas would act together im producing an un- usual prevalence of chilly norta- easterly winds in eastern North Am- in al appeared and to the modern erica, and at the same time, favor ed 'generally with an excess of cool,! southerly winds and high tempera- {tures on the northern plains. ------ Divide and Conquer, | The British Labor party has arisen {and grown in strength largely be- | canse the two older parties spent so | much of their energies in furiously fighting one another instead of amel- forating the social conditions of the | People; and the prevailing discon- tents arising out of the industrial system have been persistently and insidiously exploited by the expon- ents of a false economic doctrine, which promises to put everything right for the worker and encourages | him to believe that, by some clever manipulation here and there, by the transference of capital from one set | of pockets to another, by the ap- | pointment of new Ministries, and by | the magic change which is going to turn dull brains into sharp and bad workmen into good, the hours of | labor are to be shortened, wages are to be increased, and work itself is to lose its toilsome and monotonous character.--London Daily Telegraph. A Philadelphia View, The process. of decentralization | has been going on in the British Em- pire for half a century. Though re- | tarded during the war, it has plainly | been accelerated since, Great Brit- jain just at present seems powerless to stem the various forces at work. It need not be taken for granted that effective consoldation is impossible. But to solve the problem will require the best politigal brains the Em- | OF "MERIT ed and Executed Craftsmen of Training Desi b | Estimates on All Classes of Work Carefully Given The McCallum Granite Co., Limited 397 Princess St., Kingston Telephone 1981. pire can produce at a time when the | whole world seems bent upon draw- | ing upon the lowest brackets for itn | statesmenship, From the broader point of view, the issue being dis- | cussed by Dublin and London seems | a trivial one; but it acquires signi- cance when seen as a single loosen- ed stone.--Philadelphia Ledger, -------- Jt We offer Canadian Dated April 1st, 1922. aged nearly issue. » { 'President, J. G. G. K | rectors, J. A. O'Brien, i Smith, J. N. 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