NOW SHOWING MHS. WALLY Rub in "BROKEN LAWS" YEAR 92; No. 88. Sr-- KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1925. The Daily British Whig CAPITOL THURS., FRL, SAT. TOM MIX 'The Deadwood Coach' LAST EDITION. GRAHAM AND MARSHALL PRAISE THE KING GOVERNMENT The Chief Policy of The Liberal Party Has Always Been To Aid Agriculture, Canada's Basic Industry Rev. Dr. Gandier And Bishop Fallon Appeal "For Religious Education of Ontario's Youth URGE LIBERAL by Hon. Duncan Marshall-Mr. CARS STIRRING SPER Hon. George P. Groban, Mister of Revs and Canals, and (GATHERING CHES William Bury, Jr., Elected President of Kingston Liberal Association. The great gathering of the Liber- als of Kingston, held im Memorial Hall on Tuesday night, which was addressed by Hon. George P. Gra- ham, minister of railways aad can- /als, and Hon. Duncan Marshall, was perhaps one of the most enthnsias- tie Liberal get-to-gether meetings that has been held in years. large hall was filled to hear the Liberal speakers and the applause that came from the audience dis- played in no uncertain terms the in- terest that was | felt. The gathering took the form of annual meeting, and in addition to the business that was transacted, two masterful addresses were heard, Hon. George P. Graham, minister of railways and canals, took up tho- roughly the question of the National Railways in Canada, explaining the Hox. pic MARSHALL Boangial 'condition of 'the country as the result of government ownership of the road and he also went into the questions of tHe tariff, the Cat- adian merchant marine, the St. Law- vence river development and other things in which the people were greatly interested. Mr, Graham's address was forceful and thorough, and he made clear several questions 'ot national importance about which the people wished to know. Hou. Dunean Marshall, who pre- ceded Hon. Mr. Graham, gave one of the finest politica] atldresses that a local audience has heard in many years. Mr. Marshall's aim was to show that the Liberals had always paid the necessary attention to the development of agriculture for in the farmer depended the prosperity of the whole country. As he point- ed out, if the farmer prospered, the | country prospered, and if the farmer did not, the country 'was in a bad way. Throughout his address, Mr. Marshall showed that this policy of the Liberal party had been carried out in every instance and was thé wisest course of action that could be taken by any government. % I -- Enthusiastic Assemblage. Long before the hour set for the meeting, large numbers began to fill up the hall and they were entertain- od until the start of the meeting by, or a ot Nealon the spuauses. included Messrs. William Harty, Jr, Jack McKelvey, R. E. Ta Ph. BE. C. D, McCallum, W. Ambrose Shes and R. J. Dia The the Hon. George P. Graham, minis- { ter of railways and canals, and Hof. | Duncan Marshall, Liberal organizer, who is now doing vallant work in the organizing of the party in fhe province of Ontarfo. Mr. Gulld stat- fod that there was every possibility lof an election in the very near fu- ture, and for that reason it was | very important that the Liberal par- ty in Kingston should be well orga- nized. The chairman then called for the nomination of officers for the énsuing year. The following of ficers were nominated and duly el- | écted. Honorary presidents--Hon. Wil- | lam Harty, Mr. R. J. Carson and Mr. John McKelvey. President--Mr, Jr. First McKelvey. Becond vice-president--Lt.-Col. R. E. Kent, Third Hamilton. Fourth vice-president--Dr. BE. C. D. MacCallum, Mr. William Harty, president- elect, when asked to come to the platform with the other officers who had been elected, then took ov the duties of chairman of the even- ing. Mr. Harty said that he appre- clated the honor that had been done him, as he considered it a tribute j4o-vhis father and his brother, Iate Dr. "Jock" Harty, who had been most active in connection with the party. He reminded his hearers that a lot of organization work had to be done, and must be done at once. In past years, stated Mr. Harty, it has been the custom for the ward workers to meet and elect their chairman, and he thought it _"| would be very wise for this system to be carried out again. He them announced that the workers of Ri- deau and Victoria wards would meet at the Whig office on Friday even- ing for the purpose of getting well organized, and electing their ward Shaftmen, William Harty, vice-president--Mr. Jack vice-president--Mr. F. H. Snt---- J. M. CAMPBELL SPEAKS. Mr. Harty then called upon Mr. J. M. Campbell to say & few words. Mr, Campbell, when rising to speak, was greeted with vigorous applause, showing the high esteem in which he is held by the electorate of King- ston and Portsmouth. Mr. Camp- bell said: "All I have to say is, here we are again, and we will see to ft this time that the Hon. MacKenzie King will be returned to power in the next Dominion election." "Kingston," sald he, "will return A Liberal candidate mext time." The speaker was confident that the King government is getting stronger every day. He advised his hearers to take Campbell, R. J. Carson, | a look at West Hastings where Charles Hanna was elected in the bye-election, and he sald that that would be the story all over the Do- minion in the next general election. He referred ta the railroad question as one of the greatest that the pre- sent government has had to tackle, and he was satisfied that Premier past Tory administration, under leadership of Hon. Arthur and said that a quarter of & Salers Jud buen spent iu the als of Kingston can carry this riding in the next Dominion election. He also stated that with a Liberal at Ottawa, it will certainly be a great deal easier to get things for King- ston than at the present time, with an opposition' member there, in the person of our present member, HON. DUNCAN MARSHALL. Hon. Duncan Marshall gave an in- tensely interesting address on thd present political situation in Can- ada, and made special reference to agriculture, which is the basic in- dustry of Canada. Hon. M. Marsha took occasion to congratulate the | Liberals of Kingston upon being able to get Mr. Harty to accept the posi- tion of president of the party; he stated that it was a wise choice, and he was confident that Mr. Hart} would make a splendid president. Referring to the election of Mr. Jack McKelvey as first vice-president, he sald that judging from what he had heard from the mover and seconder of Mr. McKelvey's nomination, he would be able to kick the stuffing out of the Tories in the first round. The speaker stated that since the Liberal party has been in power a great deal has been exnected of them, but it has been a very difficult task to do as much as they would like, on account of the bad way they found things when taking over office in 1921. The Tory party had been in power then for tem years, and as in 1896, when they had held office for eighteen years, the Liberals found things in a desperate condi- tion. In 1921, sald the speaker, business was bad, and agriculture was at the worst it had been in many years. Mr. Marshall stated that as agriculture is the foupdation of this country, the government was faced with the necessity of doing' some- thing to improve the conditions of the farmers. Mr. Marshall said hat wh mers are having hasd "things are bad, and the gov- ernment that does not do something to improve conditions does not carry out the wish of the people. What was most needed, when the King government took over power in 1921, was markets, where the farm- ers of Canada could sell their-goods, and these have beem secured. The speaker charged the Meighen gov- ernment as being a government that did nothing but borrow mondy, and the King Government has been faced with the proposition of clean- ing up the dirty mess. He claimed that Arthur Meighen and his party did not do anything to relieve the condition of the farmer, such as getting him A better market for his goods. Mr. Meighen had gathered around him Guthrie, and a few Grits had formed a suicide psct and had Jumped off the cliff. (Laughter). What Canada Needs. "The thing that Canada needs is a world market, and a way to get to that market," said the speaker. He said that every year between two hundred and five hundred thousand head of cattle are shipped out of Canada, and the duty of the govern- ment is to find a market where these cattle can be disposed of. He re- ferred to cattle being shut out of England and United States, due to restrictions which had been enfore- ed, during the time that the Meig- hen administration had held tib reins of power. These restrictions were repealed by the two countries, with the result that last year a MR. MURDOCK'S ABLE ADDRESS Says Government Is Not Re- sponsible For the Depression. COMPARISON WITH US. bok P Be ae Aa an ighbor, ays Ottawa, April 15.--Speaking near- ly three hours yesterday in the House of Commons, the Hon. James Murdock, minister of labor, made his contribution to the debaté on the Robb budget. The ministér"s speech refuted statements made by Opposi- tion. members concerning immigra- tion, unemployment and bad busi- ness conditions in the Dominion, and had several lively encounters with members of the Opposition in the process. Thé minister's manner seems rather to invite criticism than to repel it, and he never runs away from a fight, and at times fis dex- terous in avoiding awkward ques- tions. He was in his element yes- terday, and though he spoke for al- most three hours he was smiling and good-humored at the end, not- withstanding numerous interrup- tions. Mr. Murdock stated that the King Government had ~~ been unjustly charged with responsibility for busi- ness depression in' Canadas; and pro- ceeded by reading & comparison of a compmreisl failures "Llist of .« various lines of business for the years 1914-15-20-22-23 and 1924, that. such criticism was not justifi- able. In 1914, the commercial fail- ures in Canads totalled 2,898 with liabilities of $35,045.094.00; in 1915, 2,661 failures with liabilities of $41,162,221.00; in 1920, 1,078 failures with liabilities of $26,424, 301; in 1922,'3,695 failures with labilities of $78,068,959; in 1923, 8,247 failures with Habilitles of $65,810,382, and in 1924, 2,474 failures with labilities of $64,530,- 975. The Minister of Labor also argued that, contrary to statements made by Opposition members, conditions in the textile and the boot and shoe industries in Canada had improved since 1921, and read a comparative statement of returns to prove his case. He also quoted comparative figures to show that Canada was not really suffering much more than the United States in the matter of in- dustrial depression. He read an article from the New York Times of March 8th, of the present year, pointing out that the United States ranked as the third highest nation in the world in the matter of un- employment with its borders. The article had stated that the number of the unemployed in : the United States at that time was 2,100,000 out of a population of 110,000,000, while at no time in Canada was the estimate higher than 40,000 out of 8 population of nearly §,000,000, HUMAN SKULLS UNDER Toronto Jewish Rabbi Opposes - ae Teaching in the Schools --Three Religious Leaders Take Part in Symposium At Toronto. Toronto, April 15.--"I wonder if there is not a danger that many children in Canada grow up as pa- gan as Africans or Indians, and only the more dangerous because they have more knowledge," sald Rev. Dr. Alfred Gandier, principal of Knox College, and former modera- tor of the Presbyterian general as- sembly, before the trustees and ratepayers section of the Ontario Educational Association this after- noon. "Whatever our own particular views may be, .>¢ we not coming to recognize that the religious ele- ment in human life is so fundamen- tal and so essential to the whole su- perstructure of character and eciti- zenship that we would rather see children trained as good Methodists, good Anglicans or good Roman Catholics or even good Jews than have no religious teaching at all?" Dr. Gandier's address was part of a symposium to which Bishop Fal- lan, of London, for the Roman Cath- olics, and Rabbi B. R. Brickner, late of Holy Blossom Synagogue, for the Jews, contributed. Rabbi Opposes Bible Teaching. Rabbi Brickner opposed Bible teaching in schools, saying in part: "The young men and women of our generation have a religious hun- ger, but instead of feeding them with nourishing and satistyipg food, we feed them stones gqiarried from the antiquated theological mines of two thousand years ago. 'Is it any Bible as a collection of fairy tales, and religion as--bunk. I sympa- thize with them. I believe, with all the fervour of my bine: that this attempt to force the Bible into the schools will prove the last undoing of the efficacy of the Bible, and re ligion for our young people." Bishop Fallon's View. "I appeal for religious education for all God's children in. this pro- vince without exception--Catholic, Protestant and Jew. I ask that they be taught the theory of religion -- that they be trained into habits of religious observance and religious life, and that these . theoretical phrases of religion conform to one or other of the broad religious di- visions which mark our populatiod." This was the appeal made by Bi- shop Fallon of London. "The various Protestant, bodies have sufficient in common to permit the drawing up of a quite compre- hensive course of religious teach- ing," Bishop Fallon said, "which would suit the children of all these denominations. If every child can- not get religious instructions in school the majority of children can and ought to get it. The minorities need not be proselytized or insult- ed. They need not be forced to be present. They may' be sent to an- other room, or to a remote part ot the same room. They need not em ter till the religious exercises are over, or they may be dismissed be- fore the religious exercises begin. "The whole community has an in- terest In the redemption of all chil- dren to higher things. "Decent Catholics suffer when a Rrotestant goss" wrong and Protes- tants worthwhile grieve at the faults of Catholics. We want the child to recognize civil authority but beyond that the authority of God himself." Geman Sla yer Is Guiloted Hanover Butcher Admits Tweaty-Six Persons and eady to Die. Hanover, Germany, April 15. -- "I am .gullty,. gentlemen, but hard though it may be, I want to die as a man." With these words, Frits Haarmann, Hanover butcher, convic- ted of the murder of tyenty-six men and boys, stepped to the guillotine early this morning and a moment later his head was severed. He was pale and: nervous, but made the same dramatic gesture of bravado which he maintained during his sen- sational trial. Haarmann, garbed in grey 'prison uniform and handcuffed, was brought from his cell. As he faced the judges and twelve official wit- nesses, he nervously changed from one leg to the other and blinked, 4a- AMERICANS QUILTY OF NOT SAYING Nf To Their Ohiidren, Detroit Teacher Tells Ontario Edu- cational Association. Toronto, April 15.--At the Onta- rio Educational Association conven- tion yesterday, Miss C. S. Newman, of Toronto, president of the Kinder- garten Section, expressed the opin- fon that though the kindergarten system was "under an eclipse," it would soon "shine again." "Americans arg guilty of not say- ing "no" to their children, and not letting them know that some things ought not to be done," Miss Emma Henton, Detroit, told the primary section, when speaknig on "dis- cipline and the child." Miss Edith Armstrong, Orillia, speaking in the public school sec- tion, removed the onus of the back- ward child from the teacher. Miss Armstrong advocated special train- ing for the backward, who composed two per cent of the school children in Ontario. Mrs. M. Morris, T3ter- boro, in the trustees and ratepayers section, thought that the "day of the white collar job is going." "We have reached a point where the vocation- al side of education stands on a par with the academic, and the com- posite high school, offering all types of education, will be a big factor in the development of Canada," she said. President A I. Husband, of the FIRE ON KING OF BULGARIA Assassins Kill a General, But Boris Escapes Injury. KING TOOK _ CONTROL And Assisted His | Attendants in (Re the Fire of the At- , Who Fled. Sofia, Bulgaria, April 15. -- King Boris of Bulgaria had a narrow es- cape from death yesterday at the hands of alleged Communists, while Gen. Gheorghieff, one of the leaders in the movement which overthrew the Stamboulisky Government in 1923, was killed in the streets" of Sofla. The king's automobile, which was travelling in the direction of the capital, ran into an ambuscade of* Communists, who fired upon him. The king was not hurt, but two of his attendants are reported to have . been killed, and the chauffeur wounded. One of the stain men was a young naturalist, Iitcheff, Almost immediately after the ate * tack the king's assallants fled. Troops went in pursuic and search ed the entire district, but without avail, : The king's experience wai a thrill« ing one. He was motoring between Orchanie, a provincial town, and Sofia, and as the car was passing a flew to'pleces, and the chauffeur,who also was struck by the bullets, al- most fell out of the car. The king took control and tried to turn the car, but, failing in this, jumped out, and with his attendants, started to return the fire of the am- buscaders, who numbered six. OR Ilteheff, who was director of the museum, and one of the king's ser- vants were killed. Boris himself had the very narrowest escape, & bullet carrying away part of his moustache. . A few minutes before the royal automobile had overtaken an auto bus carrying mail and passengers from Orchanie to Sofia. Remem- bering this, the king and an aide ran back and stopped the auto bus, which set off at full speed for Or- chanfe, from which point troops were despatched to hunt the as- sassins, whose identity is unknown. It is impossible at present defin- itely to tell whether the ambush was directed against the king or the auto bus. As a matter of fact, the auto bus wonld have been the richer prize from a purely robber stand- point, while it is not considered like- ly the king's movements were known. . ' Outbreak o Page London, April 15.--Another