' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Po Hid Bt | THE ain 1 Le is ome of the Dest job ---- on The circulation of THE BRITISH .? Vacecindtions and vacations don't always take. It takes all kinds of people to ruin a world. Cyicism: The hard place left where the blister was. "This quiet makes one uneasy. Boy, see what Mussolini is up to. . The more dishwater a wedding ring sees the longer it seems to last. Prosperous © times are those in which most of us pay more to a fe\" of us. a Rights; Privileges enjoyed by people strong enough to lick med- dlers. The smaller the town, the more pride it feels in its parking prob- Jem. ; -- t------ ' Service: The fancy touch, furnish- 8d free, that makes the bill ten per cent. higher. Cra It alway happens when one driv- er is in a"big car and the other in & reverie. If his normal telephone voice 1s fusulting, he weights 123 with his spats on, : Camping affords little thrill in , 8pring. The forests are too green to burn well. Nobody has a cinch, and it may be that germs have other pests to i prey on them. The eternal triangle that affords most thrill is the one from short 10 second to first, . Yet:there is no particular virtue in forgiving and forgetting if you lck- the other fellow. Canadisnism: Admiring a sue oess; demanding that he stop work and make a speech. - : "The reason every bird has a home is because it isn't so particular abou! a good neighborhood. About the only effects of the 'War now remaining visible in the Dig cities are girl ushers. Picnickers should be saving up papers and trash to scatter the picuic grounds, Professional baseball season has 'started. It is where we hire men to our exercise for us. More farm relief is planned. Run- a farm seems to pay about as CREDITS FOR FARMERS. Government 1s being urged to do something in the matter of farmers' credits. If amy clear-cut and tho- roughly digested plan has been for- mulated it has not yet been an- nounced. Evidently, however, the basis of the scheme is Government should provide the mo- ney, either directly or by means of guarantees to the banks. Dr. Tory has made a report, suggesting that the state take a hand in the mat- ter; but the essential details are lacking. On the surface, it would seem that such an unprecedented course has been made necessary by the fact that the ordinary agencles of credit--the banks, the trust companiés and the mortgage and loan institutions--are not satisfied with the security. Dr. Tory has made it clear in his report t he believes agriculture in the wath in a depressed state. He makes it Rqually clear that he be- lieves a scheme of state credits would improve the situation. That is the positive side. On the nega- tive side a disinterested and inde- pendent authority like The Financial Post has this to say: "That it would be a serious mis- take for the Dominion Government at this stage to go into the farm loaning business along the lines of the recommendations made by Dr. Tory is the conclusion of The Finan- cial Post after considering the whole situation in the interests of the farmers, the banks, the mort- gage companies and the community generally. Further, we believe that the revival of the idea that the gove ernment, by using the public credit to get the farmers easy loans, cah avold the inevitable readjustment which follows such a period of in- flation as was experienced in Wes- tern agriculture is likely to have regrettable consequences whether the plan is adopted or not. "This view is expressed fully re- cognizing that any effort to discou- rage the government in adopting the Tory plan will be resented on the one hand by those who would have the farmers believe that their ills can be cured by government magic and on the other hand by those bu- siness and financial institutions which assume that they would have an opportunity of reducing their Western losses by the circulation of a fresh supply of cheap money. As for the farmers themselves, while we are in favor of anything that will work out to their ultimate inter- est, we can-see in this proposal only an extension of the period of difi- culty and a further postponement of a return to that sound basis upon which permanent success can be built." This same financial authority gives it as the judgment of experts who have studied the western situation that the present trouble is not due to too little credits but to too much. Be that as it may, it is assumed that the Government will conside? the matter from all angles before giving an answer one way or the other. It is quite evident there are two sides to the case. A DANGEROUS ILLUSION. "Are we to become a disillusioned people?" asks someone. "A sage once said that the Celt was a dream- er, that the Anglo-Saxon was a prac- tical man of affairs, that the Irish had a sense of humor. In the light of more recent information on these facts, are they still tenable?" Well, perhaps they are not; per- haps the value of the few facts avail- able was over-estimated, bringing conclusions not altogether warrant- ed. But there is no danger that we shall presently be without illusions; no matter how relentlessly science sets to work to convert beliefs into lost illusions, There is more danger in hanging on to some illusions 2 little too long. There is, to put the matter concretely, a real danger in clinging to the illusion that political problems will somehow right them- selves; that In time the right men will come to thé front of their own accord. Such an fllusion about the prac- tical working out of democracy can not be got rid of too soon. How- ever it. was acquired, there is no basis for it in fact. Political prob- lems can be righted only dy those who take in their solution an active part. There is no illusion for which We pay more dearly than for the one prevalent in politics of EERE Eg TH ¥ i that the | work, whether it be mental or man- | ual. Their hours of recreation are | adventures. There is no ennui in their lives. ' Educators have found it necessary to teach children in the public] | séliools how to play. While it sounds paradoxical, it 1s the truth that thousands of chiidren do not know how to play nor what to play. This may explain why so many adults look upon life as an unpleasant duty. A few of the everyday things of life from which many obtain their daily rations of romance are the newspapers, with their human inter- est stories, and great stores of stark realism and recordings of vital cur- rent history, and the people who pass by, and the progress of science and invention, and, even, in the er- roneously called drab factories, mills and offices. Humanity consists of countless little groups, none of which knows how the countless others live, but all of which would find the lives of all the others ex- ceedingly intriguing if they would be 80 wise as to look into them. A RECKLESS GOVERNMENT. 80 deep is popular distrust of the Ontario Government that it is prob- ably suspected at times when it f& actually trying in its blundering way to do what is right. For example, it has imposed a threq cemts tax on gasoline, and The Financial Post 13 frankly afraid that it will use the money for some other purpose than building new highways. Mr. Fer- guson and his Attorney General have been =o capricious, and so complete- ly indifferent to the people they are supposed te serve, that no one knows wht they may do. It 1s not in any sense an exaggeration to say we have never had a government, either at Ottawa or Toronto, which has so quickly and thoroughly earned the reputation of being shifty and unre- liable. The Post fears the proceeds of the gasoline tax may be used to make up the shortage in the Hydro-Elec- tric sinking fund. The inference is almost irresistible, from what the Post implies, that the fund has been "tapped." Whether that be so or not, or whether or not there is an actual shortage, the disagreeabls fact remains that the people at large will not be disposed to accept an unsupported denial from Mr. Ferguson or Mr. Nickle.' That state of mind is the natural outcome of recklessness and indifference to popular sentiment. If the sinking fund is intact and adequate, mnot- withstanding positive assertions to the contrary by the representative of the Smithsonian Institute, the fact should be easily capabls of de- monstration by a competent aceount- ant. DISCREDITABLE "HEROES." It is worse than lamentable that deeper and more general popular in- terest will be shown in a great crim- inal than in a great humanitarian. It is a reflection on our refinement and civilization. The case of Gerald Chapman, under sentence of death at Hartford, Connecticut, is in point. He began the life of a bandit at nine- teen, and has figured in several spectacular crimes. A daylight hold- up of a mail truck on Broadway, New York, which yielded him and his associates $2,000,000, has led people to regard him as a man of ex- ceptional intelligence--the "master mind" of fiction. Fairly analyzed and appraised, Chapman's life shows him to have been a common fool; for in not one of his crimes was he able to escape detection and conviction. In fact, he was quickly and easily run down, chiefly because of the trails he left everywhere. But that alene does not show his folly. He is now thirty- seven, and since his first crime at nineteen he has enjoyed but five years of freedom. "Mhirteen out of eighteen years he spent in prison; and now he is to end his wasted life, 'while still below middle age, on the gallows. Only a diseased mind could find in such a record any material for the making of a hero. Some of the American newspapers have been comparing Chapman and Dr. Cook. The likeness fs said to arise from the fact that both have been criminals from their birth; and both have made miserable failures of the job. Crime is always a blunder. Let any one who cares to try find a single instance of a successful crim- inal. Our prisons contain hundreds of men who could sorrowfully attest to the futility of dishonest methods 48 means to any worthwhile end. Chapman has had a certain glamor thrown around his personality ana 'exploits; but what a mockery that must be to the man who sits in his ¥ 'have a nervous or water sea, the traditions of the Brit- ish navy upon the sait seas. On this {day in 1814 the two largest British warships were launched, the "Prince Rupert" and the "Princess Charlotte." The "Prince Rupert" was a ship of 1,450 toms, 58 gums and 435 of a crew. Shortly after- wards the United States launched a still larger vessel, 'The Superior," 1,680 tons and 62 guns. Previous to 1814 the largest vessél was the British "Wolfe," 637 tons. Both navies were destroyed according to the treaty which ended the war, and in the Bay at Kingston lie the his- toric hulls of the gallant British Chat Body of Pours "Break Down." It seems strange that so many will mental break- down, and the hospital or asylum is considered the only place to place them. That these folks have had a "break down' simply means that something has gone | wrong with their bodies, and the mental or ner- vous condition is an after effect. Almost any infection of the body, an injury to the head, changes in the blood vessels, in the ductless glands, may all cause trouble. Added to this, there may be a heriditary nervous disposition, and the struggles of daily life. In every case of "break down" therefore, a diligent search should be made for the cause. This search for the cause has re- volutionized the treatment of mner- vous cases. There is one public institution in New Jersey where the percentage of cures over a given period runs from twenty-five to sixty per cent. If no physical cause can be locat- ed, our physicians handling these cases divide them into two classes. In the one class they place those who have previously had a good mental equipment. They are the men and women who have previously oc- cupied a regular place in the life of their community, have been able to look after themselves and their fam- ilies. The other class is made up of those who have always been just a little under the normal. They come of stock that isn't just up to the nor- mal. They have had previous "break downs," and have not been able to guite hold their own with their fel- lows. And so the treatment' differs. With those previously well equip- ped mentally, these physicians do not attempt to make things too easy. Such treatment as will stim- ulate mental and physical activity is given, and these patients are en- couraged to gradually tackle things, with the result that many are restor- ed to health. With those of the lower mental capacity, or below par as it is so called, whose resistance is likewise below normal, less stimulating methods are used at first, as any other form of treatment would only discourage them further. It is refreshing to know that when nervous cases, 'nervous break- downs" are more frequent than ever, that successful measures have been found to combat them in s0 many in- stances, THE RETURN OF JOHN SIM- MONS AND WIFE. (Crawf Slack) - John Simmons and wife, Lucinda lived long in Farmersville, As children both attended the school house on the hill There they learned to love each other, were wedded there one May. "Twas there their children, one and all, first saw the light of day. At the village church they worshipped in union year by year, With brother, ' sister, neighbor and kifidred near and dear. They were not 'of a parentage consid- eréd rich or great, But. they were heirs to fortitude, by ~far the best 'estate. Ever conscious of their duty, they were wiling hand and heart, . And when duty called for action they were sure to do their pare. Their rocky, worn, hard-scrab farm, . though managed for the best, To support a growing family was sore- ly put to test. ts of and boyhood, now = Sui The Well Dressed Man Must BiBBY'S Specials! Consider These Models and Overcoat Young Men's Suits | Young Men's $29.50 The Renfrow-sthe Wales--the., Bond--the Dawning. Topcoats The Preston--the Regent $24.50 The Graydon, the Guardsman, $27 50 ' Others ..... $14.75, $18.00 Our Dan Dobbs Hats Are making quite a hit with the smart dressers, Genuine Tobralco Shirts A beauty for $4.50. BIBBY'S GENUINE ENGLISH Broadcloth Shirts To start life new on the prairie where there was unlimited soil, Where homes and wealth abundent is free to the hands of toil, Free to the son and father, awaiting the team and yolk, . Fertile and primitive acres awaiting the yeoman's stroke; Acres not for the shiftless, riches, nbt for the shirk, Homes and wealth for the miMions with the one essential, work. In the west the Simmons family made good as the years went by, And the childrep all had settled on homesteads very nigh, John Simmons had retired through the press of advancing years, And at times the patient mother gave way to homesick tears. She becoming reminiscent when freed from motherly care, . Longed for the friends of her girl hood and the things away back there; Though a score of years had gone winging, yet fresh in her mem- ory still, . Were places dear and friends that were near back there in Farmersville. One evening they were sitting togeth- er side by side, Talking of by-gone pleasures when she became his bride. . As places and friends were mentioned, she said in a pleading strain, "Let us go back to Farmersville, and see the old place again, We'll visit the dear old places that once we both loved so, And greet the friendly faces we knew in the long ago; Back to the scenes of our courtship and hear the love-bird sing: We'll stroll again through the wild- wood we plucked thefflowers in spring. "We are not pinched for money, we have plenty and some to spare, Ag here the children are settled per- haps we'll remain back there." John Simmons was silent a moment, then he said, "My wife, we shall go Jha Before our heads get any whiter or our steps get any more slow, where the love-birds used to] sing; Gone the tree-arched lane and wild- wood where they plucked the flowers in spring. They visited the cemetery with sad- dened hearts and footsteps slow, And read the names on rhonuments of friends of long ago. Then turning away in sadness from the graves where their loved ones rest, They bid farewell to' Farmérsville and returned to their home in the west. Youth has its disappointments, and the cure is time and tears, Disappointments are more fatal when they smite in after years. FIRST ENGLISH BIBLES BARRED FROM COUNTRY 'The Translator Had to Become | "Bootlegger," Student Tells His Audience. Syracuse Post-Standard pies of the Bible after it was translat- |E ed into English at Worms, Germany, With printing of the first 18,000 co- || | FOR THE FARMER We carry a full line of Veterinary' and artis strum yringes, ilki Tubes, Teat Loking and Dilators, Milk Fever outfits, Black- leg Vaccine and' In- [ jeter, Incubator rmometefs. SP Coin Ford DR. CHOWN'S rn Store 'PHONE 343, by William Tyndale in 1525, it become necessary for Tyndale to become a "bootlegger of Bibles," that he might get copies back to England. Rev. Ev- ans A. Worthley, student pastor of Syracuse university, told members of league of Furman Street Me- thodist church last night. . Mr. Worthley pictured the difficul- ties encountered by Eyndale, how he was driven from England where he had studied at Oxford by the bishop of London when he proposed his transla- tion, and then later after completing the translation, how he had to smug- gle Bibles into England in bales of ® FLORIST lutve Jour Eagar Utdery early. altuna, Priming yor Jutrul-bown orders oF. prompt dulivary Ne. Sewired Corner Brock and Wellingtoy PHONES: Office 770. Residen cloth and other shipments. "Even after he succeeded in smug- gling many Bibles into England they were gathered up and burned," Mr. Worthley said. "It is recorded that Tyndale even sold Bibles to aid the destruction ordered by the Bishop of London, so that he might obtain funds to print more copies. "The early opposition to translation of the Bible into English centered chiefly on the thought that faith and effectiveness of God would be des- troyed. Tyndale thought by his trans. lation the Bible would become more real and vital to the English speaking people, and in this he was right with. || out a doubt. » Jinstation today is to make the Tie Jesus vital in daily lives. He this listeners ice the prin. Don't people may be Dow's sharpen Jur kifs'on 'the tin cans with a butcher 3 * '