-- Rind, Dotty and semi-Weekly by f WHIG PUBLISHING ___ C0, LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. Campbell seers President As Guild ..,....... Editer and Managing-Director TELEI'HONE Office PTION RATES: (Dasly Kdition) year, ia cl . F-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: Calder, 22 St. Johm St. Montreal Ww, 100 St. WwW, Toronto Letters to the Editor are published ae the actual mame of the Attached 1s ft the best job Brinting oie 1 Cant a™ t 2 The circulation of THE BRITISH . WHIG is authenticated by the ABC _Andit Bureau of Circulations Be hospitable, but don't 'let the flies eat you, i No one ever becomes a star by staying out at night. i" Fine feathers makes sad birds ~ When the bills gome in. After all, about the hardest thing to keep clean is a record. Peace is a period during which Jou need not love allies you despise. -Political platforms are not wholly neglected. Proof readers read them. Mussolini doubtless is a great man, but why look 'so mad about it all the time? Freedom made its greatest ad- vance when some chap thought of free air. ------------ _ Fable: Once there was a wife who didn't want new drapery for the liv- ing room. It is a fine thing to learn the art of saving if you don't forget the art of spending. Class consciousness can't flourish v rusty jitneys kick the dust on polished limousines. Nature is kind, and the less im: ortant are content to brag about important things. In a book costing $2.00 the author uld cut out about 65 cents' worth f scenery and weather, I ------ ese. The chance of being a June bride be gone, but other months may the next best thing. . 'The final measure of a man is n by posterity; but his own time him by his prosperity, As a means of boosting the morta- rate the appendix has long since iven place to the accelerator, ' Rain-making isa't a secret art. A cloud always appears five min- after you get the lawn sprinkled. We soon forgive ourselves, and bubtiess Adam bragged a little he told his boys that apple ther reason why people die itly is because their stomachs can't de the port when trafiic is con. en the newspapers began the om of making sentences short didn't know the judges would it urkey and Germany are making Jat strides now and should re- er quickly unless they win a war something. Correct this sentence: "I've driven r eight thousand miles," said he, she's never been above thirty an hour." { ---- Placing more power under the €ar's hood wouldn't be so dangerous f there was some way to place more 'under the driver's hat. BIBLE THOUGHT FINALLY, BRETHREN, 'whatsoever things are whatsoever things are honest, isoever things are just, whatso- things are pure, whatsoever are lovely, whatsoever things 800d report; If there be any 'and it there be any praise, WORLD POWER CONFERENCE. For the first time in the history of the world.there has been convened at London; June thirtieth to July | twelfth, a group or experts repre-| senting twenty-four countries where | the world's power resources, their development and utilization, are be- ing fully discussed. The Engineering Journal, publish | ed by the Engineering Institute of | Canada, devotes the entire issue of | July te Canada's presentation at the | conference, the papers representing | the work of the highest authorities | in the Dominion on the various Phases of the situation. The papers are introduced by a foreword by Doctor Charles Camsell, M.E.I.C.,, deputy minister, Depart- ment of Mines, Ottawa, chairman of the Canadian Management Com- mittee of the World Power Confer- ence, in which he points out that the conference affords the Dominion of! Canada a unique opportunity to pre- sent before the world her magnifi- cent power resources, both water and fuel, and the efficient and economic manner in which they have so far been utilized. The citizens of Canada may well be proud of the magnificent presen- tation which is being made by the Dominion at this conference, which ing sign boards. Limiting the size and distance from the highways of these latter signs was a step forward. The prohibition of such signs along the entire provincial highway was a splendid move. ADVERTISING WALKING. From an advertisement, inserted in many American magazines by a shoe manufacturing concern, we gather that Northwestern University is taking some steps to encourage its students to walk. The advertise- ment appears to us as interesting, not because we imagine that North- western University will be able to do anything about the anti-ambulatory prejudices of its undergraduates, since the mere fact that the authori- ties want them to walk will probably intensify their unwillingness to do $0; but because it is ingerted by a shoe concern, which clearly supposes that it can do something to "sell" the walking habit to the millions of ris- ing young Americans who at present | use their legs almost entirely for | dancing purposes. This is a hope- ful sign, Sl If walking can be advertised--if, | that is to say, it can be made worth anybody's while to advertise it there is some chance of its survival, If not, we fear the worst. The things' Is' historic, as being the first of its kind, and at which about thirty of Canada's engineers will participate. Possessing as she does such splendid unutilized resources, possibly no country of the twenty-four taking part will receive greater benefit from this conference than the Dominlon of Canada. ; Canada's presentation is included in five parts, the papers, all well illu- strated, being included in full in the July Engineering Journal, -- MONEY WELL SPENT. Great Britain, in view of" fis in- | debtedness, unemployment and bur- | densome taxes, has been criticized that the public wants to-day are the | things that it is told to want by the | advertisers. On them it spends all | the money it can raise and all the! time that it can spare from sleep. It we glance over the list of habits that we are reputed to be losing, habits | that our ancestors possessed and | cherished, we shall find that they are | all of them habits that cannot be | "sold" by advertising or canvassing. | The habit of leisurely exercise with- out other paraphernalia than a thick pair of boots and a substantial cane is one of the most conspicuous. The habit of serious reading, of the old and accepted and non-copyright works of literature, is another. The! habit of intellectual conversation, of in some quarters for the expenditure Of twenty millions of dollars on the British Empire Exhibition at Wem- bley. Why wasn't that sum devoted to erection of homes, the reduction of taxes and the relief of the unem- ployment situation, it is often asked. The only reply the British can make is that the Wembley exposi- tion is necessary for the well-being of the British Empire. Something had to be done to cement closer the bond between the British Isles, India, South Africa, Australia, Ireland and other British possessions. The ex- position at Wembley is of, by and for the British Empire and all of its peoples.! Britain expects to regain economic stability with the aid of the spirit of co-operation and sym- pathy being created at Wembley. We in this country have implicit faith in the virtues of the exposition, We know the educational and eco- nomic values of the country fair, the agricultural exhibition and the Cana- dian Na#onal Exhibition. Co-opera- tion is achieved and the Jarriers of ignorance are lowered by them. The fair and exposition have proven themselves exceptional 'stimuli of trade, It is for this latter reason that the directors of the Canadian National exhibition at Toronto have spent millions in developing the greatest anntal fair in _not only the British Empire but in the whole world. There is a rich return on the investment. Wembley, after all, is but a great promotion and peace-making enter- prise in behalf of the British Empire as a whole. ------ SIGNS WITHOUT END, All of thte countless signs and sign boards encountered along the motor highways detract from 'the beauty of the scenery, but not all of them are without advantage to even the tourist sightseer. There is a valuable message as well as homely wit in the following specimens from signbcards scen along the roads: "This' is a good road. Tt will cost you money to burn it up." "Drive slow and see our Drive fast and see our jail." Slow down, Look before weep." » "Don't covet your neighbor's side of the road." "Stop--Look--and Live." "Don't speed. It is 'Good Morn- ing, Judge,' here as hereafter." Unfortunately, these signs are for those motorists who habitually drive' too fast do read them or to be an- noyed by the more unsightly adver- tising poster boards. To the care- ful driver these enumerated signs are as the "word to the wise" and a Protection against accidents anq speed cops. Highway advertising signs have become a problem: They mar the natural beauty of the roadside; ob- struct the vision of drivers and de- tract attention from the roadway: In- dex boards or direction signs are in= valuable, but generally absent when | most ded Speed city. you | hard to find. But the unsightly vislon-obstructing advertising poster. boards are ubiquitous. xX a The provincial highway depast- to be commended for steps they taken recently toward tne nave signs and |p, "drive cautiously" warnings are xo 3 ment and the automobile clubs are| vo of more and better direction, milage signs and the and family prayers, of letter-writing | (long and interesting letters, we | mean, not the picture-postal corre-| spondence or the dictated and typed formalities of the present era), of amateur singing and amateur water- color drawing--these and many like them, quiet and dignified pursuits which benefitted their pursuers and did not harm anybody else, have perished from the land. Their places are taken by expensive pursuits, the practice of which entails the pur- chase of something that can be and is advertised. The automobile, the movie/ the radio, the phonograph-- these are the most conspicuous of the new time-consumers, but a glance through any newspaper or magazine will show fifty other claimants for the time and coin of the new gen- eration. That which cannot be ad- vertised cannot nowadays be sold; nay, that which cannot be advertised cannot even be given away. | The only exception to this mas- sacre of old but unadvertisable habits that occurs to us at the moment is that of fishing: There 1s, it Ts true, some advertising of fishing tackle, and quite a little or places where it is said to be easy and pleasant to fish. The fisherman is a potential purchaser of railway transportation and of board and lodging. But we do not believe that all the fishing that is still practiced in this rushing and feverish age is accounted for by the advertisements of hotels and camps and bait and rods. We sur- mise that fishing satisfies some deep- seated instinct in the human spirit, something more abiding, more inera- dicable, than the desire to walk or to talk (sensibly) or to read (ser- fously) or to entertain one's friends with one's talents in art or music or elocution. Perhaps man is a fishing animal more even. than a walking animal. If the shoe men fail to keep walking alive by adyertising it, per- haps fishing will remain as the sole primitive, inexpensive," unadvertised and unboomed practice still carried on by twentieth century man. KINGSTON IN 1851 Viewed Through Our Files | Loss of the "Comet." Prescott, April 19.--The -Comet. This fine boat, for the present com- manded by Capt. O'Connor, came in- to port on Thursday last, beating the "Lord Elgin" in the run from King ston by four or five miles. During the past winter her engines have been overhauled, examined and re- paired by an able English engineer, Mr. Roberts. Hs informs us that the Comet's machinery is in the very best condition; and as to her other fixings they are of the most elegant description. Capt... O'Connor is & young skipper, but from the day he first took command of the "Canada" he has been ng in popuiarity. So we say success to the Comet and to Captain O'Connor. Oswego, April 21. 5 p.m.--As the steamer Comet, with a full afternoon, the steamer Northerner, Capt. Childs, arrived from Oswego, having on board five bodies of the unfortunates belonging to the steam- er Comet. They were all hahdsomely coffinéd, received in silence by a large crowd of bystanders, and tak- €n away to their late abodes on the shoulders of friends. The colors of the steamer were at half-mast, and the conduct of Capt, Childs in other respects was what might have been expected of him. Since~"dur last Paper went to press, three more of the wounded have died; making a total loss of eight persens. From all attending circumstances and the opinion of Mr. Starbuck, a scientific engineer from Troy, it Seems quite clear that the explosion was caused by the want of a suf- ficient quantity of water when the boilers were heated up, and that the change of position while the boat was swinging round brought the water in contact with hot iron, the conséquences of which are obvious. a ------------ That Body | of By Je A Fatherless Boy. I watched a newsboy's boxing bout with interest recently. The Lion's Club were helping the boys to raise money for their sum. mer camp. This bout was for boys of eighty pounds.» In the first round one lad made a most determined onslaught upon the other in the old.fashioned back lot fashion. The other lad, very green, kept himself well covered up, but.did.not attempt to do any leading himself until the round was nearly over, when he apparently "came to him- self" and began to put his, left hand into his opponent's face, exactly in| the manner in which it had been taught him, However he was hopelessly classed in the first round. In the second round his opponent tore into him again for the first few seconds, but this time our lad began out- to push his left into his face, and he began to slow up, making the sec- ond.round even. In the third round our lad went right into him with his left lead and also used his right occasionally, with the result that he won the fight easily. I was naturally pleased to see a boy so green stay through the first onslaught, and finally win out. But my pleasure expanded into great joy indeed, when the ledder of the newsboys came to me and said "That was worth all the time and trouble I've had with this tourna- ment," Why? I asked. "Well the green boy who just won that bout had never even seen a box- ing bout up to three weeks ago. His mother gent him down to the club with a note, asking me to teach her boy to box, because his father was dead, and she wanted him to be able to take his own part with the other boys, and to defend himself whenever it was necessary. He did exactly what I told him in the few lessons he had. Just to be able to guard himself and use the first thing ip boxing, a left hand lead." I just thought that a wise far. sighted mother that fatherless boy had. She realized that making his way in the world of boys would teach him] to make his way later in the worl ot men. His'obedience to the directions of his boxing teacher jin those three short weeks of lessons, reflected that safe mother's training. __-----. ByB odwenDavies - P July 7. As a sailing ship made its way up the St. Lawrence on this day in 1620, thero was an eager girl at its bow gazing with rapture at the beauty of the new land. She was Helene de Champlain, When Cham- plain returned to France in 1610 after founding Quebec, we can im- agine the heroic figure he was in his native land. Helene, then only twelve years old, must have regard- ed him as a mad of romantic parts. She was the daughter of a.wealthy Hugenot, with a great dower of her own. She was married to Champlain in 1610, but he left her in France to grow up, while he used ker dowery to further his work in New France. Her girlhood was spent in dreaming of Quebec, and when Champlain claimed her in 1619, he found her to be a woman of beauty and enthusiasm, She lived with him In Quebec for five years, teaching the Huron children, who loved to see their faces reflected in a little mirror which she wore. Champlain, who was more ' than thirty years older than his wife, named a beautiful island in the St. Lawrence, opposite Montreal, in her honor. It is St. Helene's Island to this You ought to make wholesale selection when you can buy Shirts like these at a sale price that approximates sale worth. Here are Shirts that regularly bring $2.50, $2.75 and $3.00--assenibled into one group -- fine weaves and choice patterns -- collars attached, some with Sizes $1.95 soft, separate Collars. --Pure Wool Bathing Suits. Hickok Sport Belts. | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES #. BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorologioal Js Boclety, Tells How. # é » How Hot It Might Be. Those who have been shivering with the chilliness of May and June, and reading of record breaking snow- storms in the northern Rockies, or frosts in New England, do not need to stretch their memories far to re- call the uncomfortable heat of 1921, In that year there were five months of summer in the Northeast, as com- pare with the usual three, or the two we may perhaps expect this year. In July, 1921, temperatures were above nermal throughout practically the entire United States, except Florida and a section in the arid southwest. The region around Chicago was par- ticularly affected, with the mean temperature for the whole month 90 degrees Fahrenheit above the aver- age. The entire summer was noted for its excessive heat; Washington had 32 days on which the thermo- meter rose to over 90 degrees Fah- renheit, while from mid-June to mid- August the temperature never fell be- low 60 degrees. At Binghampton, N.Y., which may, be taken as' char- acteristic of a large area in the northeastern United States, July, 1921, was the warmest month dur- ing the whole pericd of record, be- ginning in July, 1890; and 1921, as a whole, the warmest yéar. REV. DR. LAWSON'S FAREWELL. Appreciation Expressed Over His Faithful Services. Verona, July 3.--There was a fair congregation at the Methodist church on Sunday evening. to. hear Rev. Dr. Lawson's farewell sermon. At the close a number took the opportunity of expressing their high appreciation of the faithful and helpful services of Dr. Lawson during the years of his pastorate 'here. Mrs. Lawson Is gaining slowly. About fifty pupils are trying the en- trance examinations here. Miss Kosamond Babcock, Odessa, and Miss Mary Campbell, of this place, are the presiding examiners. Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Wilkins are visiting at Dresden; Mrs. (Dr.) Geddes at Belleville, Fleeta Embury, Toronto, is home on her holidays. Quite a number are going to Glenvale for the Free Methcdist camp meeting, - Picton Auto Thief Eludes The Police of Oshawa Oshawa, July 7.--~To the crack of revolver shots and the barking of motor exhausts, police on Friday chased William Kusman, with jail breaking and automobile thefts, However, the fugitive, driv OUR STRAW HATS MUST BE SOLD Regular $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, for --$1.95_ All the newest and most popular styles--about 300 Hats to choose from. their whole- 14 to 18. --Pure Silk Hosiery. --Pure Wool Sweater Coats. ~--Athletic Underwear. ~The new Servall Garter. BIBBY'S Have the Hotpoint Electric Goods in your home. We have everything you ma ! y need t bring comfort -- Jrons, Toasters, Heazers, ote Halliday Electric Co. PHONE 94. CORNER KING AND PRINCESS sa, Rubber Aprons il Just the thing to pro- | tect the gown, Fas. ily slipped on and off. All colors, with and without frills, 50c., 85c¢., and $1.25 Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. 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