ITISH WHIG THE DAILY BR MAN WITH WINGS. | training, which would command tor | "We have not wings, we cannot | her a fairly large salary, is seeking soar" is the way a poet puts it in tel- | that which offers the greatest finan-| ling how we may reach the "cloudy |cial returns, housework promises summits" but wé are not sure that | probably greater income than any- the poetic statement is not an error. | thing else in which she can engage. Men have soired, not in a motor | Why, then, do so many avoid it? It] driven aeroplane only, but without { is honorable as is any other form of engine and with only air currentsand | necessary work. Yet it is considered | the gkill of the operator supporting | servile. Therein is the reluctance to | a "glider." In experiments conduct- | engage in it. However, it is mot ed in Germany a man kept in the air [really servile unless it {8 made so, | for 3 minutes and traveled six : and that depends on the attitude of | . Your Hundred Per Cent. : miles, circling and soaring like a both the employee and the employer You have seen a Strong wi give 23 bird. Others have remained in the| Some college girls, partly as a | sxinpition hg Strength 3 S aghi % air even longer though not covering | lark and partly to earn something to A Per Eth wan. His accion 50 great a distance in the flight. | give them a bit more spending mo- stood out on his entire body like thé Then, is it safe to predict than man | dey in their senior year, waited on) "village blacksmith's arms." You cannot tie himself to wings and fly? | table at-a resort hotel. They took {have then beheld a strong lithe rangy The development of the motor-driven | the matter philosophjcally when _they | boxer, like Dempsey or Carpentier, aeroplane had a stage not more | were rudely repro by guests who | with less muscle and perkaps A light | Promising of success than that which | had not the education or breeding | Eovering of flesh over some of e mus now exists in flying without motive | that the girls themselves possessed. | CU ar parts. | You says+to yourself "Well Dempsey power other than that of which a They say they would not wish to be jand Carpentier are hundred percent, Pours By James W, Barton. M.D, oe and Semi-Weekly by BRITIS WHI PUBLISHING C€O0., LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. and | Skillful operator may avail himself SUBSCRIPTION RATES: "(Daily Edition) One year, Ome year, by mail to rural Oue year, to One year, REPRESENTATIVES, 22 St. John St, Montreal King St. WwW, Toronto Letters to the Editor are published Oly over the actual mame of the writer. T-OF-TOWN Cald one of the best job as, . Attached is printing offices in Cana, The circulation of 'THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the o in taking advantage of air currents. It may seem weight of a man could be supported for long by any system of heavier than air planes and at the same time be propelled in any desired directign S0| by the operator, yet we thought the same thing of the aeroplane. How- ever, we have become cautious in condemning as impossible the fancy Too many "'impossibilities" have be- come realities to make it safe to forecast failure for the dream of fly- ing through hitching one's self to wings. . Flying in that manner would mean hard work, probably. It would in= volve greater imstability than the AB Audit Bureau of Circulations ee A man never loses his nérve until he needs it. > c--" N---------------- is 4s old as - A man his wife's "charge account. -------------------- Common baking soda is good for burns, but not good enough. -. A ------------ A bit of gossip too good to keep may be too good to be true. i ---------------- Every citizen is entitled to. life, liberty and the pursuit of balls in _ the rough. ------ Correct . this sentence: "If's more the heat than the humidity that bothers me." -------- There's little to do about a boil on the neck except to kill friendly peo- ple who slap you on the back, --e sea Once men were hairy all over, _ but nobody knows what «hair tonic Was used to make the hair fall off. ~ An old-timer is one who can re- member when a girl blushed with . delight when called a "domestic." -- 'The summer resorts are open-- Where the frost is on poor Father, and the chaperones are shocked. motor driven machine because i: to lift it out of bad situations. Such flying would not be fast enough to make much appeal. It might do for amusement, but would not attract on practical grounds, though that does not imply that the device may not be perfected to the point where those who wish may not take a flight when- ever they choose. Only a few days ago the unimagi native who had continued to regard the aeroplane as still impractical for commercial purposes were given a rude jolt with the establishment of the United States 32-hour cross-con- tinent air® mail service. It is now possible to send mail from the At- lantic to the Pacific in little more lime than .it takes to send a tele- graph or telephone message from ocean to ocean, Who is there bold enough to say that the motorless plane will not some day be in universal usage? Stranger things have happened, U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW. July first, nineteen twenty-four, marked a mew milestone in United States national policy. The new im- migration law, which went into ef- fect on that day, cuts down ingress of peoples of other lands %o a point that' would have been considered im- possible a few years ago.' It marked definitely that country's adoption of SL e-------------- Some of the motorists we know _eould possibly keep on the road if they were driving through a tunnel, 5 { Be thrifty, The highest priced i looks no better than a jitney " the thing happens at a grade _erossing. - © Generally there are no grouchy- looking men about a newspaper office "@xcept the one who writes the funny uff. . Sr -------------- A good reporter gets all the fact Of the accident except the name of the owner of the ankle the driver. ~ was staring at. ------ "7, This is the time of year when tha * Boulevards are covered with nice little runabout mortgages on" the! old homestead, | Potrad-------- © - And so hearing is more acuté when Jou are asleep. Anyway, money seems to talk louder when your con- science is asleep. RC ---- . For that matter, farm labor could organize and get an eight-hour day it people would be willing to buy Bs at three for a nickel. ee : ; | After all, was it really worth it? Tut wai 3,000 years and 't get any more publicity than ukulele and the*lip stick. ---------- A Kingston dentist says that men more eflicient with 'their teeth And yet one would naturally t them to gum things ap. Ee -------------- The wicked man thinks most wo- en will fall for him, and the good | thinks very few would fall for mencement orator who attempts to 'tell the graduating class anything 3a an abundance of presumption. og could enable her to select particular insult best designed make you froth at the mouth. of mine and Of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. lines are fallen unto ms in pleas- and both have it about right. ------------ BIBLE THOUGHT yea, 1 have a goodly a plan of limited immigration -- to become still more Hmited with the passing of the years. The immediate effect of the new immigration law is to cut immigra- tion in half: The number of immi- grants entering the United States last year .was 750,000. Under the new law, it is estimated, the num- ber will be cut to 350,000 annually. At the end of three years a new premium will be placed on American citizenship when total immigration Is Timited to 150,000 a year, divided among the varipus nationalities aec- cording to the percentage of those already resident in that country who have becomé naturalized citizens, Thus the United States is now dedi- cated to the principle of rigid re- striction of immigration, and future changes in the immigration law are more likely to be in the direction ol reducing the number of entrants than to tend to lower the bars. Canada is one of .the few nations against which the new law will not be en- forced. Our exclusion means. that the republic places a different value upon the Canadian immigrant than he does upon those of other nations, Perhaps, however, it would have been better for this country if the restrictions had been applied to us, It would have kept at home many of our best citizens who seek their fortunes in the land to the south. ---- NOT OVERCROWDED. In one line of effort there are not enough workers to meet the demand. This is proved by hoor ements seeking girls for housework. Not- withstanding that there is less de- mand for 'girls in stores and facto- ries, they are not rushing to the kitchen. The situation may be a pus. zle, but at the same time it is ciearly a condition. Good wages and good méals ahd the other accommodations that go with the service do not ap- peal a extent of making the supe plY equal the demand. "There seems to be but one remedy, and that les in doing without the assistance of the maid. It fs true, dou that many families for- y "accustomed to keeping help has been made more readily possible by the imtroduction of appliances manual labor the more unpleasant work about the house. ---- It seems to us that the com- must have tuition. Noth- THE LORD is the portion m 16:5, 6. Yet if a woman without special Be of the most extravagant imagination. | would have much less driving powers Waitresses as a profession, though | they enjoyed the experience. Per- land yet there's a difference." incredible that the | haps girls of less education may not | chap of Then 5 one hundred and fifty pounds | take to housework for like reasons. { who can do an all round hard day's la- | They will not yield to What they es- | bor without fatigue, and you feel that | teem ee | BANKS AND HOW TO CLOSE THEM. Government should have ordered the winding-up of the Home Bank in the {no loss to depositors. On | strength of this rather conjectural premise it is further argued that, since the Government did not order have since incurred. a | seriously considered - the situation which the Government must have | faced, had it set itself to comsider | the question of winding up the bank | at that early date. If it is true that | the assets of the bank then exceeded [its liabilities, how great, and how justifiable, would have been the in- dignation of the shareholders at their business being taken from them and thrown into liquidation! How was the Government to know at that date thap,losses would be subsequent- ly incurred which would reduce the assets below the liabilities? Ie purchasers could then have been found for the assets at a price to cover the liabilities, it follows that those purchasers themselves could have had no expectation that the as- sets were going to shrink in value in the following years; how then could the Government know that they were doomed to do so, and how above jall could it convince the shareholders of the bank? The lamentable fact is that the consequences of an error in the mak- ing of loans do not become apparent until many months or perhaps many years after the loans have been made and can no longer be revoked. Competent bankers only make a few such errors, so few that the resultant losses can in good years be made up 'out of the profits and In bad years by drawing upon' the accumulated surplus, but the shareholders' capi- tal may not be sufficient to dover them. But not even : the Govern- ment knows just when the moment has arrived at which the last dollar of "the capital agd reserve is wiped out and the bank becomes insolvent. Banking assets do not shrink like the water in a dryifig well, quarter- inch by quarter-inch, so many gal- lons per hour. Rather they disappear like a cloud in the sky, which for hours has been clear and firm and shining in the sun, and which when we look for it again has disappear- ed. A plece of paper is to-day worth have accepted the alternative, This which lessen the need of doing * by five million dollars; the breath of commercial suspicion blows upon ft, and to-morrow you would be hard put to it to find a purchaser at one million. Even listed securities, for which there is a constant and open and public market, have been known to fall in value a million dollars or so overnight; how much more the securities representing a bank loan, which are hardly ever put to the test of a purchase-and-sale quotation. The bank which is both big and well managed avoids serious risk by mot putting enough of its funds into any one or amy half-dozen investments to bring about its ruin if they should all go wrong. The small bank, es- becially it run by get-rich-quick people, takes risks of this kind; but until the enterprise on which it is gambling is actually in process of failing nobody can say that the bank is insolvent--all that can be said is that it is taking unwise risks. And: you cannot close up a bank, even in peace time, merely for taking unwise risks. -------- Men, and More Men. There is no danger of Canada be- ing swamped by foreign immigration 50 long as it pursues the intelligent try of only those classes which are required and will fit naturally into the economic lite of the country. When tion was at its height before the war the percentage of those about whom any possible 'aps prehension might be felt was quite low and there is no more such feeling at the present particularly with the keener and more general realization that now 'exists of the advisability of recogniz- ing all the new-comers as members of the Canadian family and of en- ¢ouraging them their position.--Manitoba Press. time, | pain in a joint. | | | { | | { It is claimed that the Dominion | year 1917 or thereabouts, and that | had it done so there would have been | b¢ capable of a hard day's wider or a| he must be a hundged percent man. As a matter of fact you are right in all these cases, because you can only .| compare the present condition of each of these types of men with what their | body can do when it is at its best. Now what about you? Are you one hundred percent? You may have a strong body and you have a kink in your shoulder Perhaps you have to be extremely careful about your diet. An aching tooth or a throat that such a winding-up, it is lable to the | gives you trouble may be your portion. depositors for the losses which they | It may be that toward evening you | find yourself more tired than you Me question whether those who | hin; you should be for your age, or ve Wdvanced this argument have | r the amount of work you have done. Now you are in pretty good shape physically and yet you know in your heart you are not your one hundred | percent. , policy of actively encouraging the en- |. to feel that that is] cisles had been . formed Free| New France, but its operation was The optimist who thinks nothing can ever be seriously wrong with him, or the pessimist who imagines all sorts of ailments, can both be wrong in their estimate of the percentage of health they possess. So take a look into your own condition. If you are not really your hundred percent why not go after it. 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(Mr. Brown was the famous editor of the Toronto Globe, politi- cian and head of the penitentiary commission). That the Conserva- tives should rejoice need not be wondered at; but that all classes and shades of Reform should equally be Joyful, is doubtless a wonder to mahy at a distance. The fact is Mr. George Brown is woefully un- popular here--with Catholics for his abuse of their creed--with Radicals on account of his hectoring dispo- sition, and with the penitentiary Labour contractors by reason of his illiberality and meannes in carry- ing out the government contracts. Prejudicing Public Opinion. April 21.--Mrs. Freeman, the American lady charged with the crime of poisoning her husband, was brought to town on Saturday. She appears to be a woman of respecta- bility and well educated. It is al- most too dreadful to believe that a person of her appearance could be guilty of so horrible a murder as she stands charged with. The "News" of Saturday contains a report of the evidence given at the coroner's in- aquest. This is highly improper, no evidence ought to be given until at- ter the trial, it is unfair towards the prisoner to prejudice the minds of the people against her; if there is a doubt as to her innocence, for God's sake give her the benefit of it. (This sprightly murderess was duly tried and acquitted by a King- ston jury despite the fact that she had offered six hundred dollars to the coroner to destroy the contents of her late "husband's" stomach in which he discovered evidences of strychnine. During her trial she apparently became very ill and had to be assisted to and from the court, greatly to the distress of gallant and kindly jurors. Even after her acquittal two constables had to as- sist her into the carriage which took her to the dock, but once there she hopped out as light as you Please, ran aboard the boat and disappeared across the border with her ill-gotten wealth). § ByB odwenDavies JULY 5. On this day in the summer of 1832, a French ship sailed up to thé little town of Quebec, bearinz Emery de Caen, a Hugenot gentle man, whq was authorized by France to receive back the colony from the British who had held it from its reason for! cApture in 1629, until the terms of peace had been signed. De Caen's bréther, William, had headed a Company which had been in charge of Canad: previous to the capture of Quebec. In the meantime, the Company of One Hundred Asso to exploit postponed for one year so that ae l 'used at that time for OF MERIT Designed and Executed by Craftsmen of Training Estimates on All Classes of Work Carefully Given The McCallum Granite Co., Limited 897 Princess St., Kingston. Telephone 10381. Caen might recompense himself for the losses he had sustained in the war. The return of a Frenchman as governor was hailed by Quebec with delight and the Jesuits gave a ban- quet for Emery de Caen. In these days when beavers are guarded jealously to prevent their extinction it is interesting to" learn that de Caen sent 22,000 beaver skins home to France in one year. They were the manu- facture of the soft and graceful beaver hats, worn by men and wo- men of fashion. i "--a=tutng WHY THE WEATHER? DR. CHARLES f. BROOKS Seetaty, American ry Meteorologioal How. Colors and Temperatures. In the tropics, white or light colored houses and clothing prevail because these reflect much of the heat of the sun which would be absorbed by dark- er colors or black; Ever in middle lat. itudes, the matter of the heating qua- lities of various colors is worth some consideration. A few experiments may be cited . In Khartoum khaki and white ma- terials were compared. It was found that white drill exposed to the sun had a temperature about 20 degrees above the air, thin khaki drill, 32 degrees above, thick khaki drill 59 degrees above, and black cotton cloth, 74 de- grees above, the air temperature. It was concluded that although khaki is serviceable, khaki uniforms in hot wea- thér must cause unnecessary discom- fort: In Switzerland, a comparison of temperatures in wooden boxes painted | various colors and exposed to bright sunlight, showed a similar gradation from light to dark. It is not surpris- ing that whitewash is the universal house paint in the tropics. We would do well to follow suit and whitewash all refrigerator freight cars in summer. At Panama, still another set of ex- periments was carried out. Steel blocks painted difierent colors were exposed to the sun and the temperatures re- corded. In this case, although' red is commonly considered a hot color, the red block did not get much hotter than the white and remained a good deal cooler than the green. It is x plain fact that the writer who has something to say, whether] | ic the field of controversy or of straight reporting, and wishes to --Pure Silk Hosiery. ~-Athletic Underwear. MAKE YOUR WORK Easy Have the Hotpoint Electric home. We have everything y bring comfort -- Irons, Toast Goods in your 0 rs, Heajers, qc, Halliday Electric Co. \ PHONE 94. Farms For Sale 50 ACRES, close to thriving village with High School; good buildings; 40 acres tillable: some excellent garden land; well watered and fenced. A real bargain at ...... h Fire Insurance in reliable companies, Money to loan on mortgages, T. J. 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