Nit \ § + - Th i=l w -- Rr ia EERE || Wr id semi Weekly WHIG PURLISHIN LIMITED. KINGSTON, ONT. by @ SILLY. A doubtless well-meaning evange- lst in Washington denounced wo- men with bobbed hair so savagely that many ' women in the church choir quit. It is difficult to quarrel with the choir members for what they did. When the style of a hair cut is made the test of the soul's salvation, it is relatively easy to understand why the world backs away from that sort of religious appeal. If Christianity could be spared the troubles its friends make for it and concentrate om the big job of de- momnstrating its value to its enemies, its progress would be much faster than it is, SALVAGE. Artificial Jumber, made from waste fibre of sugar cane, weighs only a fourth as much as pine board, thus cutting transportation costs. It is not impossible that the solution of our forestry problem will be worked out in the laboratory--synthetic tim- ber. Asbestos shingles and concrete have cut quite @ hole in the lumber trade. Synthetic lumber will eventu- ally take the place of forestgrown lumber, says Dahlberg, one of its enthusiasts, Maybe he is a bit too LBLE0 see! gealous. But we are entering a per- fod when the greatest fortunes and progress will be meade through eco- nomies, espedially salvage of w: from our era of 'mining natural re- | sounces." LUXURIES, The automobile was omce con- demned by a religious sect as a worldly fuxury. There have been Bluff: Pretended asstrance. Also 'something to mun the car over. The happiest homes are those where the plano keye are sticky. There's always a way for the der- ing. Musoflage will stop falling hair. A heman is one who doesn't put anything on his face atter shaving except whiskers. > The funny part is that gum chew- ers usually feel a Ifttle superior to tobacco dhewers. Psychology doesn't explain cuss- edness; it simply makes it seem more respectable. Helium gas won't burn, and we know a brand of coal that appears to be rich in ft. ". The Slav is much like other men, extept that he abominates tran- -quility and vowels. It appears that "His Majesty, Cyril 1, emperor of Russéfa," does { not object to enacting a farce, Our faults are just lovable weak- nesses of human nature; the other fellow's are studied villainy. Vanity is essential. It emables us ~ fo think that opr head i» level mere- ly becanse our feet are cold. . 4 "All diseases are disappegring." 'he fitch, however, has consolidated its position in the palms. . ' Indhis free country every man can maintain his rights if he doesn't care jehat happens to his fenders. What we can't understand is the y static unerringly picks out the f word in each sentence, The League will prevent some ; tivated and won- §s doing for a id people are those "| province and for the country, * | many religious sects and demomine- tions 'which have denied their com- verts every luxury and every pleas- ure mot definitely spiritual. This one sect banned the automobile be- cause it did mot believe it to be a necessity of Ife. y This religious body made that mis- take so often made by the mdividual and sometimes made by a genera- tion or an age of mankind. That error lay in failing to see the value 'of luxury as the experiment station of necessity. The luxury of to-day is often the mecessity of to-morrow. The patroms of luxury foster pro- gress and by their patronage give to mankind that luxury when it has be- come a necessity. In its dnciplency the automobile was a luxury. It did mot become a necessity until it had been mechanic- ally perfected, many years after it had been adopted by thé wealthy as a luxury. The wealthy by adopting the automobile as a luxury made it financially possible for the engineers and inventors to perfect it for com- mercial purposes. The same was true of the electric Mght and many other civilized comforts, . In isolated communities with mo luxuries, people lack imagination to change, and continue their primitive discomforts. Luxury which reprd- sents desire to refine life contributes much; that which ds ostentatious does not. ; THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. From the ashes of the U.F.O. has arisen the Ontario Progressive party, pledged, in the words of its leader, ex-Premier Drury, "to re- move the stigma of class. appeal, class legislation and even class con- sciousness" from the agrarian poli tical movement. It is the old Drury '"broadenming- out" policy in new guise, is the opinion of the Hamilton Spectator. A crusade is to be launched, it is de- clared, to 'eradicate abuses of pre- sent party government," but how that Jaudable endeavor is to be ac- complished by the creation of still another party is not quite clear. What is needed is less rather than more of partizdnship. It 1s dad enough to have continual abuse by one 'side or the other--the "outs" railing against the "ims," and the "ing" reviling the "outs"--without a third party stepping into the arena to abuse doth. Something more than mere criticism must be.forth- coming before the Progressives can expect to attract outsiders to their ranks. Thére are great political tasks to be accomplished for this de manding the highest order of states. manship and disinterested public service. 'The issues are too big for. narrow party limitations; the re- quirements cannot be served by the Chemistry will make the tramsition | MORE ABOUT TAXATION. Since June 30th, 1921, the Unit- od States government has cut down its yearly expenditures abou $2,- 000,000,000. It has paid off about two and three-quarter billions of dollars of its debt and reduced its annual intetrest by over $130,000 000. It is estimated that the tax- payers of the country, by these ac- tions, have been relieved each day of about $6,000,000 in taxes. Bat the people of moderate means are, in fact, not heavily taxed directly. It is the indirect taxes which add to their burdens, to the cost of liv- ing which they all must pay and which is kept high by heavy taxes. President Coolidge expounds this clearly when he says: "The great corporations, the banks, the rallroads--all the great incomes--do and must collect their money from the people. All our food, clothing, shelter and fuel pay a tax to the government, and the people who earn the wages of the nation do and must pay these taxes when they buy these necessaries. "This simple fact determines what must be a gound policy of taxation. It should be at a rate which will. produce the largest amount of taxation from large incomes, and by doing the ut- most to stimulate enterprise and business, afford the large wage earners ample employ- ment with good pay, in order that they may the better bear the burden of indirect taxation. "All experienee shows that a larger amount of money can be collected from large incomes at a moderate rate than'at a high rate. When the rate is too high, large incomes disappear, leav- ing all the burden of taxes on the wage earners and people of small means. Getting all we can out of the rich by making the rates moderate and stimul- ating business to provide work and increase the earnings of the poor, seems to me to be the common sense methods of taxa- tion." This, says the Financial Post, is in accordance with the Mellon plan, which was based on a principle which the administration all last year tried to convince a rebellious congress was the true one. The Mel- lon plan, in the opinion of the Bache Review, must eventually be adopt- ed, and every taxpayer is urged to make his influence feit until this is accomplished. Canadian taxpayers and Canadian business are interest- ed in this situation because the need for more intelligent, tasation in this country will be increased 'with the adoption of sounder methodsMn the United States. Teath Anniversary Of the Great War November 22nd, 1914. Violent bombardment of Ypres and Rheims continues. The Germans are again busy shelling the cethe- dral. ldeut. Briggs is a British aertal hero. He dropped bombs on the Zepplin sheds at Friederichsha- fen, and was taken priomer after putting up a fight with his pistol, Ypres is held by the Allies, whose position is strong. The trenches are in terrible condition, the Taen having to stand in half-frozen slush. A big problem is to keep dry feet. Important victories gained by the Russians. The forward movement of the Germans is checked. The Ger- man losses are reported at Peétro- grad to be enormous. A terrible battle is raging near Cracow. In East Pruesia the conditions for Rus- sian success are much more favor- able than before, A German caused a row in a local restaurant and was placed under ar- rest and taken to the police station. The German claimed that he thought some soldiers, who were in the res- taurant, were going to kill him. night on the whole bat period since #2 KINGSTON IN 1854 Sidelights From Our Files Pte an Odds Fish! October 17.--We have been re- quested to lay before our readers copies of two letters, ome written by Dr. Mair, a retired army sur- geon dwelling in Kingston, and the other by Dr. Dowse, staff surgeon to the forces. It would appear that Dr. Dowse, who without the small- est flattery is one of the very best men that ever dwelt among us, fan ordinary conversation with Dr. Mair made use of the word "Egad." For this simple saying his brother medico has presumed to read him a long and impertinent lecture. Dr. Mair's Letter. My Dear Sir--Fully aware of the difficulties which beset .Christian men in the army, and how opposed its manners an! maxims are te the humbling doctrines of the Cross, how different the language of officers Is in general from that which charact- erize the disciples of the meek amd lowly Jesus, and how apt we are to contract evil habits from those with whom we are bound nevertheless to associate, I can conceive it quite possible that a man beginning <£o run the Christian race might on an occasion use reprehensible lang- uage, from old associations and foot- ed custgn. But sugely it is the duty of all who name the name of Christ to depart from all 'iniquity, and es- pecially to be upon their guard against the sins which do most eas- fly beset them, "Egad'" is a corrup- tion, I believe, of the sacred words, "0 God," but how dilferent:does it sound to the believer's ear when pronounped profanely as it always is.* Yot, alas, how often is the ear greeted with such offensive lang- uage. (After much more of the same he concludes), P.S. Do not despise the enclosed. It is very excellent tho' in the tract form, . ---J. M: Dr. Powse's Reply. My Dear Sir--I have to acknow- ielge the receipt of your extraordin- ary rhapsody of the 12th inst, which I must pronounce an extreme piece of impertinence, and there- fore treat it with the contempt it merits. I have passed a long life in the army without meeting with the class of associates you allude to, anl if you have, in your career in the service, led a life of sin, I think you were quite right to rétire from it, and seek by sincere repentance the peace of mind you say you now enjoy. 1 have exhibited your egtraordin- ary epistle to a few friends in Kingston as a warning to them to be careful in their conversation with a self elected saint like you, not to make use of the word "Egad." With best wishes for the improve. ment of your intellect, R. DOWSE, 1st Class Staff Surgeon. 836 odwenDavies i - NOVEMBER 22. On this day in November of 1806, thefirst - French-Canadian news- paper made its appearance in Que- bec. Unfortunately it was not es- tablished as a means of promoting French culture or education, but as the opening shot in a campaign to create animosity between the French and English races. 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