3 fe YE ------------ \ Suggestell slogan of the one of the best job - Canada. 'Growing old ig just a slow process shedding enthusiasm, 'Sometimes a floating indebtedness Reavy enough to sink. Nurmi's +The Finnish finish first, for 'International crisis: Two mules for the same ear of corn. Whet goes up must come down. lion: the cost of living. Every man feels at peace with God pn thofoughly satisfied with him- 'One-half of the world doesn't care 'darn about the other half's scan- 1 -------------- Civilisation is not going to be unless it makes itself worth | A ---------------- Whete there is no vision the' peo- pe who manufacture silk stockings Burely it wasn't sentiment that 8 France charge Uncle Sam for space. The thing that persuades some fel- to do post graduate work is a betting eye. rh man falls {nto debt, but at ing out is usually Correct this sentence: "Bring the . out for a little poker," said , "the wife doesn't mind," The mot significant three-letter ations are C.O0D, KX K., 8. FOB, and P.D.Q. 1, the world hasn't lost much &irls took to gadding about in- of doing sofa pillows, ------------ 'is hard to tell whith are most f nt, a country's political par. or its petting parties. smoker in London has §,360 , whith is almost enough to find when he is in a hurry. approach the day when thirsty must 'between the town and a sch pump, ---- i ---- .| monopolize the home market. | might easily do more harm than «| order to allow an artificially grown . A SHAKY PROPOSITION, The growers of vegetables and small fruits in Canada appear to be 30 a bad way. For six months of the year American competition can fairly { But the tariff remedy which is being strenuously advocated by the Cana- dian growers looks as though it good. In his address to the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association, Pre- gident Walter J. Cooke, of Cataraqul --4t0 whom the Whig extends con~- gratulations on his appointment-- declared, "It is as logical to force the public to eat home grown food as to force the sgricultutist to buy home- made manufactured foods." Despite this assertion we take it that Mr. Cooke would not favor growing | oranges, grapefruit or dates in Can- | ada. There is evidently a point be yond which it becomes uneconomic' and injurious to overcome the handi- cap of climate by artificial means, even though it is admittedly possible to do so. Canada is more prosper- ous by buying tropical fruits from the tropics and devoting her own energies to producing those things for which she is better fitted. It this Is admitted, the next ques- tion is whether winter grown vege- tables do or do not fall within the class of articles which it is better for Canada to import. By the pre- sident's own statement winter vege- tables can be grown in Florida, Mexico and California at a cost of 50 per cent. or more below the Cana- dian cost, Any ordinary assistance to ovgrcome local disabilities would be readily granted. But a perman- ent tax of 60 per cent. or more in home product to compete with a na- turally grown foreign product ap- pears like unsound economics. And that is the sort of chicken that al- ways comes home to roost. Of late years we have learned that in greens and fresh vegetables there is a lite-giving value which is de- ficient in long stored vegetables and milk from cattle fed on old hay. Winter greens are therefore not a luxury, for they coatribute to the health of those who use them. The cheaper they are the more widely will they be used, and the higher the price the more restricted their con- sumption. So that what the Vege- table Growers' Association 8ally de- mands is that many of us should give up a higher standard of living and £0 back to a lower and older in or- der that their business may continue to be profitable. Is this a sufficient advantage to balance the sacrifice they ask of us? It would seem that the northern vegetable growers om both sides of the international line are faced by new and {increasingly formidable competition brought about by better means of transportation . from the fields of highly organiged truck farmers in sub-tropical climates. Canadian producers ery out for the protection of a' high tariff wall, but is' this necessary or wise? Are not 'the growers in the northern States of the Union, against whom the com- petition is even keener, overcoming it by better organization and sales facilities, by epecialising in fancy, high priced lines with which the staler southern product cannot com- pete and lines which grow better in the north? The same methods should bring ue relief, but if not we might better abandon the field to the much more efficient producer rather than continue buéking indefinitely against both climate and economics, THE RENT PROBLEM. As compared with the days when life was less elaborate, rémis are now high. They have not been de- flated to the same extent as other items in the family budget; yet there is something to be sald from the landlord's point of view. In the case of apartments, which have become 80 pop in all the larger cities, an analysis of rents discloses the fol- lowing situation: Out of every dollar paid by the temant 1.7 cents goes for insurance, 5.3 for administra- tion, 8.1 for repairs and re-decora- tion, 10.1 for taxes, 18.5 for wages, coal and other operating expenses, while 56.8 remain for the landlord. It represents 7.25 per cent. on his investment. 7 , f domestic habits. In our ldrger cities this concen- tration and narrowing of life has been primarily due to advancing land values. The apartment is the natural method or méeting that new condition. ' To those who are stu- dents of sociology, a field for specu- lative thought is at once opened up. What will be the effect a century hence of this cramping process? Will it affect health and status? In guessing at the answers, allowance must be made for the marvelous adaptability of mankind to altered and altering environment. The effect on the home itself is another matter. As contrasted with the conditions of fitteen years ago, there are so many new influences operating on home life that one finds himself too puz- zled to hasard a prediction. WHY IT HAPPENED. \ We should all be deeply concern- ed in the mental process of the west- ers farmer as he has watched the collapse of the speculative wheat markets at Winnipeg and Chicago. I he 'has clearly understood that his wheat rose in market value from $1.06 to $1.85 because there had been a world shortage in the crop of further advance from $1.85 to $2.20 was dpe entirely to manipulation by speculators in control both of avail- able supply and the grain exchanges; and finally, that the sudden drop from $2.20 back to $1.85 brought about by the collapse of this speculative movement, all will be well. He will no longer need to be told that, in- the final outcome, the inexorable economic law of supply and demand will always dictate what he shall receive for hig pro- duct. This most impressive object lesson has been opportune. Our friends or the prairies have been lashing them- selves into am unhappy frame of mind, and making everybody else unhappy at the same time, because something was not dome through legislative channels to reliéve what they regarded as their disabilities under the unequal play of deflation. They should have realized that noth- ing could be dome; that they had been the innocent victims of a law which could neither be modified nor made inoperative' by any means whatever; and that time would bring about adjustment. Of course, many grain growers did grasp that relent- less truth, agd held themselves aloof from the clamér. There is a general conviction amoiig economists that we have seen the end of $1 wheat, except as a possible 'and rare Incident. The dis- couraging marist conditions which prevailed between 1921 and the aut- umn of 1924, were undoubtedly due to the operation of supply and de- mand; but largely because of an ab- normally low demand. Shattered and stricken Europe had to fall back on something else than wheat as a staple food. The impoverished peo- ple of many countries were unable to pay the price of white bread. Mil- lions of men and women had to eat something else during those dark years of receastruction. Coincident with that condition there were abun- dant harvests on this side of the At- lantic. The yield of wheat in 1923 was phenomenal on our - western prairies, A happy change hes ocourred: Europe is getting back on its feet. The demand for white bread is steadily swelling as the pufchasing power of the people rises. That bs a looking to us for supplies. It fs a reasonable prospect, we are assured by competent authorities, that this ability to buy our fleur, or 'our wheat, will be progressive. A fair market price for Canadian ex- port wheat is therefore certain, or as certain as anything can be in this tapricious old world. But our west- ern friends will be helping them- selves on the road to well-being and contentment if they do not depend wotirely on the grain market. They must increase their by-products, which is another way of ssying they must adopt mixed farming on the prairies, Excellent results have béen won by those who have taken it up, as witness the prosperity of the dairy inddstry in Saskatchewan and Al- bave come variations in social and | 450,000,000 bushels; then that the! was | By James W. Berton, MD, "Road" Work and the Liver. in putting an athlete into shape, footballer, the trainer puts more em- phasis on what he calls "road work" than on anything else. In truth the man must box, wres- tle, or row to acquire the necessary skill. He Hikowise gets considerable "condition" from this athletic work in which he specializes, but neverthe- less the old trainer sees that he gets lots of road work, which is simply jogging slowly along the road or dipeet, Or evem around the running track of the gymnasium.» * Why is this so important? Be- work necessary to throw the body in the eir when he. runs. ground, and he would do it in a few minutes. It is mot hard, therefore, the heart would have to pump this blood, amd the lungs would have to purify it. A strong heart ,and an eficient pair of lungs results. Therefore, the ideal way to devel- op the lungs would be to use the big leg and thigh muscles, and thus call for extra air. Now you can readily see that this is a better system of developing the lungs, than emply taking breaths, where all the muscle that you use, -is the flat muscles on the chest. However, there is one thing that is attained by these deep breathing exercises, and that is an actual mas- saging of the liver. This means more to you than you think, because the liver is such a soft organ, that any play of the mus- cles of the abdomen would tend to squeeze it, and thus bring the bile portant work. You may remember that it not only breaks up fats, but takes care of poisons and hurries the Intestinal contents along, Perhaps you sit at a desk or stand by a bench all day, or abdomen gets no bending or exercise. If then in your endeavor to in- crease your lung capacity, you take a number of lgng deep breaths, you will of course increase your lung capacity to some extent, but the lungs pressing down on the diaphregm, that is the floor of the chest, and the diaphragm on the soft liver, will squeeze the Mver and help to empty the bile into the inestine. \ Thus your breathing exercises-- drawing In and expelling long breaths--might well be termed liver exercises. Press Comments. The Embargo on A Indianapolis News: In many ways Canada and the United States are an economic unit and the stringing of economic barbed wire along the bor- der is not to be encouraged. It is a dangerous manoeuvre to seek, even indirectly, the destruction of an in- dustry in another country. The United States, unfortunately, will have to combat the fact that its pre- sent tariff law hd8 somewhat the €ffect of an embargo on many Cana- dian products. Race or Hybrid? Glasgow Herald: The 'world would not come to an end, and civilization Would mot perish trom 'the earth, it the British Dominions overseas were to cease to he predominantly British in racial composition. At the same time, the history of by-gone empires shows the confusions and disasters that result from a wpakening of rac- {al solidarity, Not mérely our own interests, but those of the world re- quire that there should be a spon- taneous solidarity of sentiment throughout the British Empire. This solidarity can be ensured only by the continued and, indeed, the increased predominance of British blood and britian ideals in each of the Domin- ns, i531} ; i iis be he a boxer, wrestler, careman, or If long |} into the intestine to do its most im- | DRESS WELL AND SUCCEED ' LOOK THE PART A Good Clothes won't make the man. Quite so; ' But without good clothes you will find the going hard. Good clothes are not a luxury, but true efonomy. They'll pay you real dividends on the investment. Our New Spring Suits | and Tepcoats cause of the tremendous amount of In an ondin- |} ary jog of one mile, he would Ht |} over one hundred toms weight off the ||| Are Ready for Your Inspection &- Our salesmen have become very enthusiastic over the new models, and have spent many plea- sant hours to get themselves familiar with all the new style kinks, etc. . RG Our Mr. Howard Ball, Mf. Bruno Spoor, Mr. Mason or Mr. Sloan will ' be pleased to show you these newcomers and assist you fn making yous od : If you are not yet ready, have your favorite Suit or Topcoat set aside. Our Our Atkins Suit $30.00 BIBBY'S We're Not a Bank But You Can Save Mosey Here t % Renfrew Suit | a I $25.00 | ~ gant taxation and its indefatigable concern for everything but what really matters! The maintenance of a standibg army in so small a coun- try Mr. Dillon denounces as "'noth- Ing short of crime," as indeed it is; and he also mocks at the policy of seeking to open embassies in for- eign countries. : KINGSTON IN 1858 Sidelights From Our Files-- A Backward Look. * L'HOTEL DIEU FIRE. September 14th.--A fire broke out yesterday shortly after noon in the rear buildings of L'Hotel Dieu in Brock street. It raged with great fury for about an hour, destroying all the buildings in the rear of the hospital, but by the gi®at exertions of the firemen and others assembled, the main building escaped destruc- tion. There was nevertheless much confusion and excitement among the inmates, both Sisters of Charity and patients--the former had nearly all their furniture carried into the street and partially destroyed, while of the latter, many had to be carried out f their beds in blankets and were herwise much discomposed. It affords us mueh pleasure to add that the firemen of Kingston on this occasion did their duty in an agemplary manner, and by their ex- ertions saved L'Hotel Dien from the flames. If the corporation of King- ston and the several fire insurance companies would, but do their duty in like manner, there would be no occasion for newspapers to hint that boys, not men, form the chief mater- fal of the fire brigade. September 15th.--The Herald of yesterday, alluding to the fire of Thursday, makes a most unjustifiable attack upon the Victoriar' ¢ Com- pany, while it praises the deluge company most inordinately. Now it 80 happens that one company is comi- posed of Protestants and the other of Catholles. We believe that both ot toes companies did their duty alike faith- fully; and it exhibits bad taste on the part of the Herald to breed dis- sensions between the two companies by any such like one-sided praisq and censure. < FEBRUARY La Prairie, Que., about this day in 1836, for #t marked the insugur- ation of the first railway" in Can- ada. And horees supplied the mo- tive power! In the following year a steam engine, imported from Britain, replaced the horses, , amid much controversy, 'we may be sure, for some of the writers of that day had declared it "'sheurd and ridicu- lous" to predict that locomotives wiould travel twice as fast as horees, and in any case "people would not trust themselves to the mercy of rete," The rails of this first road, which was sixteen miles long, were of wood, overlaid with strips of fron, and it 'was operated in sum- mer only. For ten yeam it was the only railway in British North Am- erica. isi mith, 'Whole Wheat Waters / Very tiéuriebing and pleasant to eat. Physicians and Dietitéans re- . CROTHBRS COMPANY, A unanimous call, with a salary of 1 $4,200 was emtended to ald M. Chappel, pastor of ertawn, by the fan church of Ri Don't forget "The Pamous Women," Y.M.C.A,, Friday, Feb. 20th, 8 p.m, and also Saturday matinee, Admission 35 and 50. cents. BLADE ROAST 1270 Ib. ITHIOK RIB .... 180 Ib. 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