'y i. Wa EG A 1 tl g pt relatives are those who money and Rnow you need it, quain® old-timers had a grab- game, but it wasn't called na- ¢, . "A man's second wile is more .» Oh, well, an encore is. " rity has advantages. A small can get only three sticks of gum his mouth. it extreme carefulness isn't be- the driver is new, but because car is new. till, if France pays her friends that Germany pays her, who pays the devastation? looked about for a stone. 2 x 3 The hard part of being poor is ig to save while spending 'as 'the rich do. . A ---------- ' all, the. best thing to de 'young man is & short course jage lifting. § the old days of Dobbin the Prat that could happen to a hugged was matrimony. " must enrage the author of a 'book when nobody condemns makes it sell. xico reports everything settled the estate of ViMa, claimed | -------------------- What does backiche suggest?" medicine ad. Well, speaking id we should say gardening. h ain face, but his carries a powder puff. '| terprises would be profitable. THE PEACE RIVER PROJECT, Strong pressure is being brought to bear on the Government to com- struct a ling of railway into the Peace River country, The matter came up, incidentally, in Parliament a few days ago. The Minister of Railways pointed out that the first step to be taken was to have an agreement between the Canadian Na- tional and the Canadian Pacific as to which should build the road, or, as an alternative, an arrangsment for Joint action. The heads of these two systems had been askéd to get to- wether and come to an understand- ing in that regara The Peace River country is said to have vast potentialities, and, with Jrallway facilities, would become a @eld for settlement on a considerable scale. That much may be conceded. There would, on the other hand, be & general feeling throughout the Dominion that nothing in the nature of impulsive action should be taken. There is no scarcity of good land idl the West, and the financial aspects of the whole matter caanot be ignor- ed. The capital cost of such a rail- way as is proposea would be heavy, and, even under favorable condi- tions, it would be some time befors returns from operation would make one hand wash the other. . Canada is undoubtedly in need of population. Larger production is the only way of lightening the bu¥- dens which are at present being borne. The people at large are pa- tiently awaiting the turn of the tide. ,| They are particularly anxious, never- theless, that capital obligations should not be increased; unless there Was & reasonable certainty that, within a few years at most, new en- In that attitude of mind, they would expect government to proceed in this Peace River matter|with great cau- tion, avoiding definite commitments until the full extent of the cost had been ascertained and the prospects of a return thereon fairly measured. The old saying is still true, that "a burned child dreads the fire." ' CROW'S NEST PASS CASE. The judgment of the Supreme Court in the Crow's Nest Pass ap- peal decides but one point favorable to the western contention; but it happens to be , a 'very important point. It declares the agreement of 1897 binding, and that the Railway Commission has no power to over ride a special statute of that nature. It, however, upholds the argument of the railways that the maximum rates fixed by the agreement apply only to such shipping points as were served by the Canadian Pacific twen- ty-eight. years ago. There is likely to be a reference of the whole mat- ter to the Imperial Privy Council, land; pending a decision by that final 'court of resort, it may be assumed that no change will be made in the existing scale of rates--unless Par- lament intervenes. That is a vital qualification. o The right of Parliament to fnter- vena at any time, and by legislation to do whatever it may wish, is un- 'doubted. In this instance, however, Parliament should intervene for one purpose, and one only, and that is to clearly and definitely assert the supremacy of the Railway Commis- sion as the sole arbiter in this and all other matters affecting the rates st ure. If the judgment of the Supreme Court "should not be re- versed by the Privy Council, and it should be given effect as it has been rendered, there would at once be a return to the exceedingly mnsatisfac- tory situation which obtained be- tween 7th July last and the finding ernment, it will be remembered, had ordered the restoration of the Crow's Nest Pass rates, and the railways interpreted that as applying only to points which were on the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1897. all 'other shipping discrimination. The Su; has decided that the position then taken by the railways was sound in law. It matters not that the main con- _THE DAILY BRITISH erately brought into existence to as- sert justice as between shipper and carrier, without reference to geo- graphica' or class considerations. In other wouds, that Board was in the position of the Supreme Court of Canada, "concerned only in doing what was just. The interests at stake in this mat- ter are unreckonable. As between the protéction of public interests, on one hand, and the interests of the agencies of transportation on the other, it is necessary to have an in- dependent and competent tribunal ke ' the: Railway Commission. Freight rates are based on economic considerations, and, if justice is to be done in the fixing of them, room cannot be left for the play of purely sectional or class influences. The moment such influences are permit- ted to operate as factors, the door is thrown wide open for all sorts of injustice. The whole matter must be treated from the national view- point, and in an impartial spirit. It is, in fact; conceivable that the regu- lation of rates by a political group, controlled by either a section or a class, might lead to the ruination of the railways. At all 'events, under such a system there would inevitab- ly be constant clamor and dissatis- faction. There is a factor in this matter which, while it does not come with- in the scope of the legal aspect can- not be ignored. The Canadian Na- tional Railway was not a party to the Crow's Nest Pass agreement of 1897, for the sufficient reason that it was not then in existence. Only the Canadian Pacific was concerned. Yet the government system is au- tomatically brought within the ef- fect of the Supreme Court judgment as much as is the Canadian Pacific. Its rates at all competing points would have to be the same as the corporate road. If Parliament yields to the pressure of the Progressives, and proceeds to make Crow's Nest Pass rates applicable to all points served by the Canadian Pacific, the loss of revenue to the Canadian Na- tional would be enormous; and ev- ery penny of that loss would fall on the taxpayers of the Dominion. There can be no doubt of that. 'We have reached a juncture where our Canadianism will be submitted to a supreme test. Parliament may do one of two things: It may assert its power on the side of sectional- ism, or it may rise superior to polit- ical interests and stand for a sar and vital principie. ic it takes the latter course, all will be well. No matter what may be the immediate outcome, it will have taken high ana safe ground. It could then look forward with the sustaining ' con- sciousness of having been governed wholly by pational considerations. Any other. course would beyond all doubt lead to incalculable trouble. THE WAR AND WEALXH. In 'discussing the growth of na- tional wealth, The New York Times of recent date makes the somewhat enigmatic assertion that the United States did not make anything out of the war. "The one argument that has no force at all," it says, "is the one still heard now and then that, while Europe has been impoverish- ed by the war, America has been enriched by the war. Emphatically that is not the case." It them pro- : by an ingenious set of calcu- crease in natiohal wealth between 1900 and 1914 was not maintained during succeeding years. Thus it concludes, the United States was a It is rather difficult, nevertheless, pathy for the neighboring republie. Such lodses as the Times indicates are purely negative. They are very much like the misfortune of the man when it was selling at $1.60, or thing else which has shown a rapic and substantial appreciation. The two facts which stand out over Others are: First, that during' gE : E to show that the rate of in-| to work up any strong. gush of sym-| : some big industries, but for the pre- sent and for many years to come her mergies will be absorbed by the con- quest of the d and the bringing of it into the spirit of. her peopie and the past history of the United States, there can be no hesitation in recognising in Canada one of the greatest World Powers of the future, an achieve- ment in colonization of which the British people can be immeasurably proud. -- Persecution of Christians. London Telegraph: The Bolshevik leaders are having trouble with the peasants owing to their religious de- votion. Tt is difficult for us in this the Russian church. There is in erately-planned campaign against Christianity and every form of re- ligion; and, on the other hand, an unorganized resistance to this move- ment, which owes its strength to the peasants. means dead, but its adherents are enduring persecution tn patience, be- lleving that in the divine order of things deliverance will come in due course. A Declining Industry. London Post: Coal is a shrinking industry, and no amount of talk can alter the fact. So far as the mines are concerned, the results are hard- ship, discontent, and unemployment. The miners themselves, under the direction of their chosen leaders, have taken the worst way possible to restore a declining induftry, by forcing up the costs of production and reducing its amount. No action by the State can possibly save an in- dustry whose decay is caused by vast economic changes. All such digplace- ments cause temporary distress, The economic history of this country is indeed a history of successive dis- placements of industry. In course of time men thrown out of work find other employment. Were the miners wise they would look out- side England, amd within the em- pire for their future. By James W. Barton, M.D, "Colds." As everybody seems to have a "cold" once in & while, and many have them almost continuously, &ny- thing that offérs relief is of interest to the whole community. At the time President Coolidge was trying out the "Chlorin" cure for colds, everybody was naturally watching the progress, because a great amount of time is lost from employment by these bothersome colds, Two medical officers of the United States Clinical Warfare Service first brought out"the method. All sorts of devices for administering the chlorine have been tried out during the past year. The reports as to the success of the treatment are contradictory, as the New York physicians had little ton physicians felt that the *'chlor- ine treatment was successful in a number of cases. The fact that the Es hi i é it privileged land to understand exact- |} ly what is happening in regard to i progress, on the one hand, a delib- [|i peculiar religious outlook of the i Christianity is by no {i or no success, whilst the Washing- | | ii WHIG Looking st |]! Kingston's One Price Clothing H The Greatest colicin of Men's Suits in the City at One Price Ei OUR SUPER EFFORT IN VALUE AND VARIETY We're making a feature value of this up this ing. We've had our concentrate on this effort in ie ene. of fabrics, patterns, models, and in the excellence of tailoring re- finements. 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Flags were hung dat of windows having on them appropri- ate devices at the getting up of cer- tain of which the Muses had evid- ently been called fu---ror instance: Let the bells toll! For Gortchakoft Is mow cut off From Sebastopol. §8 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phone 323 or 1797). mense. At the time of the Conquest they comprised at least 850,000 acres, : _ Prescott, March 3.--An & $3,200 was made to Napoleon d: Remember, remember, The eighth of September, Sebastopol, powder and shot, fc, &e., &c. . Others were of a more prosaic FLORIST mE i t i HONEY 5 and 10 Ib. tins 15¢c. per Ib, Soutions cach «50. and 80 ts if : nt k "ES EEE 2 & W3 3 t