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'WHIG is authenticated by the ARO Audit Bureau of Cirvculations There isn't much in a hick town | ta attract attention except knickers. | A cynic is a man who thinks everything rotten except his precious self, Few things are mare useless than a family tree after a financial re- verse, I m-------------- The "merit" that lifts some men consists in ability to soft-soap the boss. - Barly to bed and early to rise and you'll meet a lot of milkmen and other such guys. issn sonra Every town has at least one man 'who wonders how the world will get along without him. ~~ Another dismal failure is man's effort to look modest while admit- ting he was right. _ Vable: Once there was a mother who didn't suspect her little daugh- r of musical talents + ' i { bes * u ri en ttl A little quarrel may become a great one, but the quarrelers remain As insignificant as ever, Heaven woll't mean much to an efficiency expert. It's just a econ- tinuation of loafing. The only war slogan that has fallen into complete disrepute is ! "Regardless of cost." The approach to Easy Street is 'easily recognized by the discarded fllusions along the way, -------------- Home {s a place where the air is full of indignation. when old Dad es to use the car. Perhaps the best way lo make peoplé stop at railway crossings Is to put up hot dog stands. i a ---- «Old Dobbin. had faults, but he ldn't - attack a: locomotive even you stepped off him. 'Another reason why girls leave home is because it's so lonely there the old folks away. Almost every boy passes through age when nothing else seems' so mantic as carrying a pistol. he ------------ ¢ way © to avold getting the number is to remove the gum your face while addressing | ep ------ ¥ # : man must turn to Page 46 to the remainder of the story, he mad to_read the intervening w % o | conservitive leanings are of a type % | which is less ready to come forward so' be citizens all the way. | have only to ask ourselves what in- {but never to enter | cent British elections in some sort But in a | didates as "Labor and Co-operative" WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT, It seems regrettable that one of the incidental results of the turnm- over to Toryism in Great Britain should 'be such a heavy reduction in the number of women members in the House of Commons. There is surely nothing in the essential char- acter of the female sex which should associate it especially with advanced views in politics; indeed there is reason to suppose that the female vote among the electorate was as largely Conservative as that of the males, Perhaps the women with and take an active part in the busi- ness of government at this early day in the history of female eman- cipation. It may be true that the presence of women has not greatly changed the nature of governing bodies from what they were fifty years ago, or at least has not visibly improved them. But that is not the point. The important advantage -which re-| sults from the presence of women in legislative: bodies and similar places is the gain to the female population as a whole. If they arg going to be citizens at all, they must It is only by partieipating in the business of government in the persons of mem- bers of their own sex that women will ever learn to understand how those processes are carried on. We terest men would take in polities if they were permitted to vote for can- didates who were always women, the legislative halls themselves. IS IT THE END OF SOCIALISM? Now that we begin to see the re- of perspective, it appears' possible that it may mark the end of the great era of propaganda against the ancient institution of private pro- perty, generally denominated by the vague term Socialism. For a gen- eration or more on the continent of Europe, and for a decade or two in Great Britain, the energies which at almost all times in human history are available for the advancement of what men call Reform have been mostly mobilized under the leader ship of Socialism, and private pro- perty in some or all of its aspects has been "the enemy." The high- wates-mark of this movement was attained when 'the Bolsheviki took possession of the government of Rus- sia; and their success may have had a good deal to do with the subse- quent recession of the tide. 'For their administration 'has made it abundantly evident that the evils inherent in the institution of pro- perty are as nothing to the evils whieh develop in a world still or- ganized in' the form of national statés (and as yet incapable of any other organization) when property is abolished. It is very possible that man will be able to get along nicely without property 'when he 'is much nearer to the -angels than he is at present; but the idea that the aboli- tion of property will bring him nearer' to the angels has proved an utter delusion. it is now abundantly evident that it property is ever to be abolished in Great Britain within the lifetime of the present generation it can be only by means-of a 'coup d'etat," for an overwhelming majority of the British people is clearly opposed to such abolition and profoundly alarm- ed over the mere prospect of it. democratically-organized country which is already alarmed and on its guard, a "coup d'etat" is red flags in their drawers with their other childish toys without any pro- found sorrow, especially if somebody (not, we fear, Mr. MacDonald) can | provide them with another '"'cause'" NATIONS AND THEIR MONEYS. | The old paper money of Germany has been wiped out by the exchange of one new gold-based mark (pro- perly termed a Reichsmark, but al-| ready assuming the title and prero- gatives of the sole standard of mone- tary value for the empire, as "the mark") for one trillion of old marks. We are using the word "trillion," a rare word and one which conveys no definite idea to the human mind in any event, jn the sense which is commonly given to it in America, namely one thousand thousand mil- lions. Anybody who has kept in his possession a German promissory document, payable in marks, since the year 1916 to the present time, can now cash it in--for the one- thousandth part of one-thousandth part of one-millionth part of its original gold value, Anybody who cherished the idea in 1914 that no great modern state could repudiate its monetary system and remain a great state is entitled | to revise his opinions in the light ofthis achievement. We now know that the power of the national state over the lives and property of its citizens, at least in t!mes of national peril, is vastly greater than was ever before supposed, and that this expan- sion of 'the power of the state has been going on during a century of what was thought to be steadily growing individual liberty. It is true that the German state has al- ways been less restrained by any sense of its obligations to the in- dividual citizen than any other ecivi- lized modern government, and that the hardship inflicted by this mone- tary repudiation on great classes of respectable and honest German citi- zens would have been viewed with horror in England; and it remains to be seen whether it may not have permanently damaged the qualities of thrift and industry in the Ger- man people themselves. The French franc seems to have settled at an exchange value of littie over five cents, as against 19.3 cents before the war. It seems very doubt- ful whether it can ever be restored to its original value, a process which would involve retiring some thirty billions of paper francs now in cir- culation, But with the German cur- réncy re-established on a gold basis, and the British presumably soon to be so, the French can hardly afford to retain a fluctuating currency, and the natural solution seems to be a partial repudiation--the establish- ment of the franc on a gold basis at six cents or thereabouts, and the abandonment. of any . idea. of ever paying any more for it in gold. If the civillzéed nations of the world ever do develop a responsik,; and reliable super-state, one of the most important functions that could be attributed to it would be the establishment of an international currency, and the existence of such a currency, which could not be wat- ered down by any national goveen ment for its own War purposes, would be a valuable obstacle to the breaking-out of war. But this im- plies a weakening of national feel- ing which in itself would tend to make war unlikely; for 50 long as national gelf-consciousness remains strong no state is Hkely to surrender that very important weapon of gov ernment, the control of the mone- tary unit. \ very difficult, not to say impossible, to. pull off, We suspect, therefore. that with the exception of a few So- clalist, or rather Communist, doe- trinaires of the most implacible kind, the forces which have been working for and with.the Labor party in Britain for ten or fifteen years will begin to seek some other and more attainable objective than the abplition of private property. It is sufficient to note that not only did Mr. MacDonald throughout his cam- Jules . refrain most scrupulously from ever employing the word "8o- clalism," but that his chief party organ consistently describes its can- rather than Socialist, And notwith- standing all these efforts toWards Tenth Anniversary Of the Great War November 16th, 1914. The Allies increase the flooded area. An entire German regiment was destreyed by the rush of water which swept through their trench. The flooded district now extends south of Dixmude. Last week when EN the waters receded, the Germans were able to remew their attack on Dizmude. The Austrians may not defend Oracow city and there is a gendral exodus from that place. The Rus- slans advance thirty-five miles in- gide the East Prussia frontier. The clinging | Germans are sald to have withdrawn Internationalism "aroma now inevitably a almost without nt and not due to anything . | warrior, fs from the vicinity of Kalits. Ma- gurian Lake reglon is clear of the enemy. : a : LA . Lotd Roberts, the great British . He died at thé death is mourned by front, and his nations, all the Allied Capt. E. D. Carr-Harris was kill-| He was a graduate of the Royal Chat Body of Pours By James W. Berton, M.D, Why New Cults Sometimes Score. | Someone has asked the question why | have so many forms of healing sprung | up in the last few years? i { to be enthusiastic about. { Is it because | the "regular" physician has not kept pace with medical knowledge? No! The regular medical man today knows vastly more than his predecessors. The wiping out of the Plague, Yellow Fev- er, Malaria, and the control of Typhoid Diabetes, Tuberculosis and so forth, more than answers that question. But the physician of today in his pur- | suit of the cause of an illness, is unre- | lenting in his endeavor to locate this cause... The patient is simply the "host," or. individual who happens to have the illness. And so when he treats the illness he frequently forgets, ! or does not take into consideration, | 'the patient himself. Now this doesn't suit the average | patient, because he or she wants to! talk about the illness, more than the! physician cares to listen, and unless! the physician has an unusually big re- putation, the patient is dissatisfied. This of course is not the case always, | because one of the most outstanding physicians in America, bases his suc- cess upon his knowledge of human na- | ture, and not upon his knowledge of medicine. Now what is my point? That many of the practitioners of the new "systems" or "cults" have cultivated the art of salesmanship, they | have acquired a good working knowl- | edge of human nature. Now is this wrong? Not by any means in many cases, because one of their assets is the teel- | ing of optimism they impart to the pat. | ient, which goes a long way in the| treatment of "nervous'" or "chronic" | cases. Further, by seeing the patient frequently the patient feels that he is! getting more attention, whereas the re- gular physician, hesitates to make what he terms 'unnecessary' calls. | The danger of course with the "irre- | gular" or "new cult" physician, is that , often he had not the sufficient training, to permit him to handle that precious thing the human body. But this study | of the patient, his inclinations and dis- position, might be of help to the re- gular physician in getting quicker re- | sults. -------------- Prone. * KINGSTON IN 1854 Sidelights From Our Files A Humane Bar Tender. Sept. 2.--Dr. Wolfred Neilson, the mayor of Montreal, wirile coming up to King®en revently to attend to his duties a8 inspector of the pendtenti- ary, was wittiss to some great acts of kindness and personal intrepidity on the part of Mr. Megragh, the bar tender of the Royal Mail steamer Ottawa. Dr. Wolfred Nelson tells us that on board the boat were a jange party of emigrants, many of whom were down with incipient cholera. Mr. Magragh® paid the most unremitting personal attention to them all; was ever among them with stimulan's and other oholeraic reme- dies, and was the means, the doctor avers, of stopping the disease in no fess a number than seventeen cases ! Capt. Putnam tells us that this con- duct is no epecial case, but that on many other occasions it had been equally praiseworthy. In fact, he is a most valuable man. Such human- dty is worthy of notice and commen- dation. Magistrate vs. Medico. Sept. 2.--A few days ago a worthy magistrate of Ernesttown had occa- gion to send for a physician for que 4 QUEEN'S PURE WOOL SWEATER COATS BIBBY'S | * The Shop of Smarter Things for Young Men OVERCOAT! 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