-, COMMUNITY PRIDE. A mania for large and costly. pub lic buildings is sweeping the coun- "try, beautifying cities and towns, promoting community pride, but in- evitably swelling. already burden- some taxes. The threat of higher taxes has not abated the building. Beginning soon after the war and increasing in volume up to this time the hue sad ery for public buildings hae been heard in the largest cities and the smallest towns alike. Every- where is there a popular demand for municipal convention halls, stadi- ume end administration buildings, courthouses, libraries, echool build- ings and other public edifices. In many iustances the demand is justified by the growing population. There is a recognized nation-wide ay | need for-additional school facilities | wat FAA SUBSCRIPTION RA : (Daily Edition) One year, by mail, cash . One year, to United States ....... REPRESENTATIVES: 100 Ming St W. | The circulation of THR BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ARCO Audit Bureau of Circuiatione The only way to cath up with the future is to wait for it. ------ : Sand may dispel clouds, but too , mich sand causes war clouds. The fire of genius seldom kindles ambition in the man who has money. ' 40 burn. Judging from the product on dls- play Santa Claus put in a mighty busy year. There are now sixty-five products of the lowly peanut, not counting the tummy ache. Hole-diggers on a golf 'course never sirprise us. We always dig >--up at African 'golf. You might as well endorse notes. It you're that easy, somebody else would get it anyway. . Winter is a season when a car at the side of the road doesn't mean @ahping or vamping. ' The year what. we expected it to be, we all knew ii wouldn't be, 1034 wasn't exactly but then If be talks to her for hours about bimeelf, he loves -her; but not as much as he loves himself. JR. . And so there is "less friction™ fn prohibition enforcement: Greasing the palms seems to help. le p---------------- The surprising thing about peo- ple is that most of them have just as much sense as you have. While woman's place may be in the home, her daughter's place seems to be out in the auto. Among things more bledsed to give than to receive are knook-outs, measles, neckties and advite. mere that is only slowly being supplied. City and county administration buildings are woefully inadequate in many places. Adequate public lib rary space as an educational re- quirement of the commuaity is sec- ond only to the public school. Beautiful! public buildings "are the pride of every community, but they must be paid for out-of the public treasuries. Those who pro- pose public improvements should "not complain about the taxes they Public improvements ang low can not dwell in the same Some communities are elect~ ing the former and others choose the latter. pay. taxes ------ A NEWSPAPER'S FAITH. There are certain critics of news- papers who apparently have little conception of the work that the newspapers are doing in the world. There was a time (our grandfathers can recall ft) when th was ©com-~, paratively little in the average news- paper to rouse a man from his dreams, make him look with a wide- awake and seeing eye at the world around him, and--think. This is what the real newspaper does to-day. It is not greatly both- ered by the persons who say that most of the news should be suppress ed because it ie so "awful." The newspaper which believes in mir- rowing life as Ife really is shows greater faith in human nature tham the critics--that is all. When they call this or that piece of news "aw- ful," they often mean seductive rather than awful. They wrongly fear that human nature instinctively craves .rottenness and that the ex- posure of a vile career will prove enticing. It is no more enticing than the picture of an insane asylum is entie- ing. It shows as nothing else can show how terrible a sin is, Every line of the picture thunders with a power denied to speech. The mem- ory of it is burned dnto the soul with @ quenchiess fire. The reader, old or young, serious or gay, can never misunderstand, oan never forget. It 1s a lesson thatlasts. It is the truth in flesh and blood--the truth acting {self out before our very eyes in real life. MAKE THIS RESOLUTION. One New's Year's resolution fit and proper for all to make is to re- solve to get in six months of ener- getic and unoeasing productive labor 'before the hot weather and vacation season opens in July. In the words of the street the period beginning January 1st and ending July 1st is the time for the worker to "get in his best lloks." ? The firet six months of the year are pecuMarly adapted for work. Durifig the greater part of that per- 'liod the weather being cold, is, it- We are an easy-going people and never stay mad long enough to get & third party well organized. ------------------ There's small choice. If you're brutal to a bore you feel ashamed; if you're not he comes back. nr ------ The highest explosive on earth is made' of uniting » selfish man with & woman who has a quick temper, It's so simple. People never nt "what they want in this world be cause they want what they can't get, _ At times you wonder whether 8. ~ R. O. stands for "Standing Room Only" or "Some Rotten Orchestra," 7 Correct this sentence: 'I forgot "my compact," sald she, "but | won't hours." self, conducive to efficient toil. The outdoor attractions are few if any, and indoor working conditions sre an inducement t6 work. And then there is only one widely observed holiday during the entire six months to interrupt ahd disorganize the long siege of hard work, Work is not so gmoothgding end easy during the last six months of the year. July, August and Septem- wer are the hot weather and vaca tion mouths of the twelvemonth, apd work cannot compete with hot weather and the wacation urge ex- copt on the farm. As for final quarter of the year, football, humt- , {sl} $0 nature has given the North the six months from January to July in which to labor industriously and YisEd E % that no one has ev time. The cross word pushies in book form or clipped from news- papers have replaced the needle work and popular novel in the steno- grapher's desk. Among _men, office and factory worlgers the cross word puzzle is a new excuse for laying | down the topls and the pen during | working hours, Even husbands have been heard to complain their meals' are late because of the intro- duction of the cross word puszle into the home. If the cross word puszle was mere- ly a pastime it would be a wanton waster of valuable time and in its | present etage of popularity would be cause for concern among employers, But the great demand for diction. aries and synonym books is evidence that this most popular of puzzles is something more than a pastime. It coggumes much time but to the ad- vantage of the solver. The cross word puzzle has made the word book a best seller and has brought the dictionary and thesaurus into active uee in many homes and by many in- dividuals for the firet time. Before the cross word puszles became popu- lar you could have counted on the fingers of two hands the number of persons in the average community making daily use of the dictionary. To-day hundreds of thousands of men and women own and use them. TOO EASY. What curious people there are In the world. Here is Mr. J. C. Squire, a leading English poet and writer, assuring that part of the world which reads the. ".ondon "Observer" that he dislikes cross-word pussies because they are too easy. Baay! 'As: Mr. Squire is most of all a gen- tleman, we must believe that his statement is not a deliberate false hood. It may be that a poet who spends his life in eearching for the exact words to fit ideas discovers with comparative ease the word to fit @ mere square, But a well known human weakness may further ex- plain his contempt for the number- ed square. Many a man who is en- thusiastically fond of doge cannot bear cats, having acquired a thor- oughly, doggish attitude towards felines. Mr. Squires is enthusiastic over acrostics. Can that be the sec ret for his jeers? He says in past: "When you see 'Behold' the Word will be 'Lo!' and personal pronouns are usually mortar in the chinks Generally speaking théir drawbacks is that they are too easy. The few posers are usually automatically solved by the discovery of all the letters in them through other words running vertically or horizontally across them. It is all very educa- tive, no doubt: it is something to fix in one's mind the identity of the 'son of Haran,' of a 'quadruped in Madagascar,' and of 'members of a tribe in Assam." It also has the soothing effect of an easy kind of Patience. But unless higher flights are achieved than in the volume be- fore- me, the acrostic will hold the field for all who at present really en- joy it. It really promotes one's self-esteem to elucidate one of these contorted lights (acrostics); but there is little satisfaction to be de- rived from thinking of a word of two letters meaning 'depart' begin- ing in G and ending in O, or a word df five letjers meaning the same: as H.0. A drug, yes; but not en exer- cise of the intellect; not a test of erudition gr memory; not a coping with the wits of an ingenious and obstinate opponent capable of the basest strategems, the most mon- strous syntag (and sometimes pro- sody), and the most dishonest tricks. But I begin to grow hegted." 0DD FACTS ABOUT YOURSELF By YALE 8. NATHANSON, B. Bo, MLA. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania The Death Fear. * When you die, you die as dead as a door nail, some people say. Othérs believe that your soul passes into the body of an animal or another per- sop; others, that your soul goés to Heaven or a land of suffering, ac- cording to the life you have led; some, that you live after this life only when people Speak about you. In other words, a reward for having fed a great life is that, in the years that follow, your name never dies and therefore ¢ long after-life is de sured you. a | The mystery of death, gE § Be H their thing # i after rescue my fea; was Intense." "From eighteen to twenty-five I| was constantly eaying to myself: | "Let's see if I can stand the thought | of death now.' Its horror to me is] fn its unreasonableness; it is a mel-| ancholy, and not a terror." | "1 grew so afraid to pass a grave- | Yard on the way to school that I grew sleepless, Jost flesh and became literally afraid of my shadow. I was cured slowly by memorizing Long- fellows 'God's Acre.' " "When I became convinced that the personality emded when put in| the grave and that there was no fu- ture life, my fears of death, which had been morbid, ceased." "I have a chromic fear 'that my father is to die, Although he is well, T fancy all the details and suffer ever and over as much as if it were real." Don't live a life from which every vestige of enjoyment and happiness is being crushed because of morbid fear! Many persons find their oaly relief against these terrible feelings in these thoughts. "After all, eso many others have lived their lives in happiness. Every one has a certain number of yedrs to-live if he takes care of himself. I will live ming and enjoy them as I should." Often some little formula like this will help you. Or perhaps yeu can | make ome up which will hit your | case more closely and solve your | gréat problem of unhappiness. | Tomorrow--Worried by Fire, That Body of - Pours' { { | ! Gas Pressure. . In a former article I spoke about the gas formation in the stomach, which at times resembles a toy bal- loon in size and shape. Sometimes the rings of muscle at both openings, contract so forcibly that the gas gets firmly imprisoned in the stomach. This distends the stomach, and the pain at times is very severe. You | can, readily see that when this gas! distends the stomach, that the stomach walls will be pushed up against every other organ in the vicinity. What happens? The stomach pushes against diaphragm--that is the floor of the chest--and gives the heart and lungs less room in which to work. Accordingly breathing becomes more difficult, as the diaphragm has to push down against this gas pres- sure. ' ' Similarly the heart gets crowded for room, and has to beat more fre- quently. This dificult breathing, and rapid heart action, may become severe enough to cause collapse. What brings about this condition of the openings? Too much food at one time might be the cause, but more frequent camses are heavy exertion too soon after a meal, or some emdtional dis- turbance before the digestion has got well under way in the stomach. What's to be done? i Well keep in mind that a ball of | gas has got up intc" the top of the the THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG STORE OPEN EVENINGS "Men Like Gifts that Garb Them You are sure of your gift receiving a warm welcome if it is something to wear--some- thigg serviceable and fashiomable. A few suggestions are herewith advanced «=the store abounds with others. . Pyjamas $2.00, $2.45, $2.95 to $6.75 $3.50, $4.75 Boys' Overcoats $6.50, $7.50, $9.75, _ $12.50 Boys' Mackinaws .00, $6.00 BOYS' SWEATER Real Nobby COATS SHIRTS $1.45, $1.95, $2.45, | $2.95 PURE SILK SHIRTS (White) $2.95, $4.75 GLOVES Dents Knitted Gloves 50c., 75¢., $1.00, $1.50 Mocha Glove, Wool Lined Farlined Glove BOYS' SHIRTS Boys' NECKWEAR NEAT KNITTED TIES 35¢. SOS Three pieces. 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