THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG \ THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1923. THE NEW FUEL. Another indication of the trend of the Canadian fuel situation is furnished by the announcement in the latest Canada Gazette of the incorporation at Montreal of the Ca- nadian Coke Corporation, Ltd. Even | five years ago a company proposing to sell domestic coke in Canada would not have had a chance of success. To-day it is launched with every assurance. The people of On- tario and Quebec are evidently be- ginning to open their minds with re- gard to this fuel. tL EEE ro and Semi.w by = BRITISH WHIG PUBLIS ING | LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. | M. President | t or | | so, during that difficult winter | has taken The coal strike and fuel shortage of three winters ago was probably the first cause of the more general use of coke. At that time, the De- partment of Mines issued a pamph- let on the best method of burning coke in domestic furnaces. And since then the Deputy Minister, Mr. C. C. Camsell, a graduate of Queen's every opportunity to preach the advantages of coke for the coalless regions of Canada. Even of | the coal strike people used soft coal RATES: and wood in preference to coke, so great was the prejudice against it. wiped out, and a sound system built up out of what is now the unsound | {layout bequeathed to the Govern- | (ment by the defunct Canadian! | Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific. | | By reorganization from ocean to | | ocean, and a complete re-casting of | { which make for pliability. That dis- main line and branch line mileage, | | covery made, the next step was to they are convinced the operating | find a suitable reagent for the €Xx- ratio of the Canadian National could | | termination of these bunion and | be brought down from 94.5 te about | | corn producing intruders. Common | 80, which is the present level of the | | sulphate of soda, or Glanber's salts, { Canadian Pacific. That would pro- | | was found to do the work. Leather | duce "a balance. | [treated with that chemical remains | At that point the advocates of | | safe, expansive and durable. | amalgamation fall apart. One side | 88 stoutly asserts that the way to | | make the thing a success is to leave | | one wonders what would be the the whole matter to Canadian Paci- | | effect. Will it lead to the populari- | fic genius, as the other side stands | | zation of pedestrianism, and thereby | in favor of the public ownership idea | check the multiplication of automo- | being maintained. Debating will | biles, or will it merely feed the crav- [not bring them togethdr: but calm | [ing for $azz? For one thing, it will | deliberation may. And during that | | rob thousands of a valid excuse for period of digestion, some clear-cut refraining from walking to church | plan of terms may be worked out. on Stnday morning. It may even | That is why theére is no need for | remove what has unquestionably | haste. 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Our $18.50 _-- wo . ally Edition) year, rr year, by mall to rural : But a few trustful souls read the | their shoes are pinching the old sore year, to United States government pamphlet and proceed-|SPOt are angels rather than plain | ed with fear and trembling to put | human beings. When it has taken | the first shovels of coke on their fur® (the "ouch" out of groueh, we may | naces. 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The annoying thing isn't the in- heritance tax, but the taxes we in- herit. -------------- Things are nothing .more than what you think and usually not as | much, + : -- "War scare" is a misleading ex- . Pression. The scare always precedes the war. ------ : A good mother is one who feels flectful if she isn't worrying about ---- " We wonder if there are people on ; stars who wonder if there are Peoplé on the earth. Prosperous times are those in hich people who made money in Il times make more. er -------------- The seed catalogues always omit | picture. You can't draw a pic- | ire of an ache. Eo eens + The reformer's good be just as effective if he did- | talk so much about it, ' | example gE ---------- { b - It becomes more and more difti- | for superior people to keep in-| from getting ahead. -------- Another objection to war, in the ght of post-war headlines, is that | 'Kills off the wrong people. t ---- It may be that the limit of intel- is reached at sixteen. Most fall in love after that. | / ! A -------------------------- It len't necessary to hunt for ke Just Invent a new 'ism lot nature take its course. ------------ 'Women drivers demand only halt 'the road, but sometimes they are about deciding which halt, trouble with the horn of is that you are likely to out at the little end of the -- Of the hardest things to do is to find something to do against the law.--Cincin- | solved if Great were so well satisfied that they have never bought the larger sizes of anthracite since. Stove coke . with pea or split-pea coal makes a suit- able combination for most furnaces. The householder gets many more heat units from a ton of coke than from the same quantity of coal. So the ton goes farther and costs him less. That single fact 1s the real reason why there is already room for a second large coke company in this part of Canada. ------ THE NEEDS OF FRANCE. The war has taught the nations of the world a great truth. They ought to have known it before: but they did not. That truth has to do with the fact that all nations act and re- act on.each other, constantly and | | unavoidably; that the adversities ot | t1® idea is good, and ought to be | one hurts in degree all the others; that they cannot live unto them- selves. Thus it comes that all coun- tries, but particularly Great Britain and the United States, are just now watching with intense interest the efforts of France to get back on her feet, balance her budget, restore her credit, and take her place again as a strong nation. Sir Gedrge Paish, the eminent economist, has been writing a good deal lately about France, it would seem with the purpose in the back. ground of serying as an international publicity agent. It would appear that he is particularly anxious to have the people of the United Stes made acquainted with the needs of France and the means that must be taken to meet them; for the chief ob- stacle to a reorganization which would produce a balanced budget is France's inability to pay the inter- est on her war debt to Great Britain and the United States. This great authority on finance does not hesitate to say that the problem would in large degree be Britain and the United States wrote off these obli- gations. He believes Great Britain would be willing to do this. He does not express any opinion as to what the United States might be prepared to do. The amount is large, and Sir George would no doubt remember with what an outery of dissent the proposition to cancel the British debt was met by our neighbors. A nation which so frankly worships the almighty dollar was not prepar- ed to do anything which impressea ber people as being unbusinessiike. The case of France may, however, different. The Anglophobes ave not by any means all dead in the United State¥. A people fed from youth on the idea that England was their hereditary ememy had not reached the point of being generous to that enemy. No such feeling ob- tains as to France. The same out- ery might not be raised in this in- stance. The Americans may see the matter as Sir George Paish sees It, simply as a means to avert a world calamity, in which they themselves Would lose heavily in trade. Certain- Iy at this moment the attitude of the United States in this vital mat- ter is pivotal. But they have got to settle it for themselves. ---- CONCERNING SORE FEET. A world of footsore men and wo- men wilt rejoice' over the latest an- | ------ of | | NO NEED TO HURRY. | There can be no doubt that Par- | ' | liament has been seized by a sudden | | | and great singleness of purpose. The | |same thing might be sald in degree | By James W, Barton, M.D. of the people at large. That single | The Thin Child. | purpose is to do something construc- | Parents are [tive which will arrest | losses in the operation of our nation- alized railways. The hope seems to They endeavor to watch that most [have become general that this can | Important point--the diet. So the be done by amalgamating the two | YOUDZSters are encouraged to drink great transportation systems of the | Plenty of milk, to eat vegetables country cooked .in various ways, plenty of bread and butter, cereals, fruits, and Nobody at the moment has pre- | allowed a little candy and meat. sented a sharply defined plan as to [There could hardly be any improve- how this can be brought about. | ment on this, and yet parents are Talking about it will not do it. Pass- | worried when they see that their |ing a resolution would be equally | youngsters are below the normal futile. We may be all agreed that | | very sensible about prospective | some parts of the training of their | children in health matters. weight for their age and height. | What about this? practicable; yet the terms and con- | Well, although the food is the im- | portant thing, nevertheless a num- ditions must be before both Parlia- | po of har Hayy enter into the | ment and the people in advance of | peter. positive action. The one danger at | If the youngster is allowed to re- this stage is that there may be haste | main up late at night, to go to and imperfect planning. This is |crowded movies, and stay until the such a monumental proposition that | Place closes for the night, then there the first thing as to which everybody [3 going to be physical and mental should stand committed is to move | fatigue.' that is most wearing on the | deliberately. entire body. Further, that young- | There is already a sharp conflict of judgment in Parliament. Among those who have spoken some want to ed by this lack of sleep, is one of the see the Canadian Pacific absorbed by | most frequent causes of underweight the Canadian National, while others | in children. assert with great earnestness that| Of course there may be some un- the Canadian Pacific should take | derlying cause. Bad teeth, tonsils, over the Canadian National. Sir | oF adenoids nay oR acl, and w e correctio R 8 Henry Thornton has declared him- there is an immediate increase in self in favor of the former course. weight. He has expressed the opinion that} If the mother will go back a little such a merger would come close to | ways in her mind, she will remem- | producing a balance as between in-| ber that when the youngster was come and outgo. Let us look at the | small that there were morning and | matter for a moment in the light of | afternoon periods of an hour or official data. more, when the youngster was put Full information is available for In the cradle, bed, or carriage, and 1923 as to both Systems. The gross sleeper. Now the nervous energy dissipat- ster often becomes a light or - | | expected to sleep, to rest completely. This same method should be ap- | earnings of the Canadian Pacific in | plied to the underweight youngster | that year were $192,827,930, and (of any age. It may be difficult on | operating expenses of $155,040,207. | account of school in the morning, | That produced net operating earn- | but immediately after school in the ings of $37,787,723, and an operat- | afternoon, he should lie down for a ing ratio of 80.41. The Canadian | full half hour in a quiet dark room. National earned $216,678,176, ana Jo WL thus Sot the reat inet when " tw count for most. Sinden ot operation $204/031,718, Exercise for these youngsters is Meant ay operating ratio of | just a question. He must get some 94.62. But when the American lines | exercise, light exercise outdoors, if were brought into the calculation the | he is to secure a healthy appetite. It final net operating revenue was a| he overdoes his exercise, by playing little over $20,000,000. The com- | too long and too hard, he not only bined net operating earnings of the | Wears out his tissues, but his sleep tWo systems were therefore in round | ecomes broken. So by giving plenty numbers $58,000,000. of rest, and spreading the meal | The question of fixed charges at once arises. They include taxes and ] rentals, as well as interest on fund- | ed debt. In the case of the C.P.R., + | & billion and a billion dollars, It has they amounted to $14,128,730; but, inasmuch as there were substantial earnings from outside operations, the final net credit balance was $35,- 399,409. That 1s the sum that would have been available to the merger it it hal been in existence in 1923. The fixed charges of the Canadian National were nearly $70,000,000; So that there was a deficit for the year of $40.867,098. Thus there would have been a loss, if the two systems had been joined, of about $14,500,000. Right there, however, another matter intrudes. The fixed charges Ea April 30. On this day in 1623, over three centuries ago, there was born to the noble family of Montmerency, in France, a child destined to carve out for himself an amazing career in the New World, then just or the verge of settlement. He was the priest known to Canadian history as Laval, first bishop of New France. Laval was the third son, and chose the church as a career. His two older brothers died while he was still studying and he became hours a good ways apart, you will] get your best results, | / heir to an ancient title and magni- do not include anything at all for the | ficent estates. In spite of all pres- Intercolonial, the National Trans-| sure, he renounced his rights to a continental, eastern branch lines and | Younger brother and devoted hina- 80 on, which have a capital account | %¢If to religion. He came first to estima Canada in 1659, lived a life of pov- Yarjously fod at between hase! tH and self-denial. helping in' the nursing of contagious difeases in the hospitals and sharing in ardu- ous lives in the colonists. He was inflexible what he Dbe- lHeved to be the rights of his church and was bitterly opposed to the sale of liquor to Indians, and lived for many years in friction with the gov- assigned to the Canadian National Bot been the practice to bring that liability into the reckoning, for rea- Sons as to which all parties are not agreed. Without ! washing the other; but he lad no thought of in- cluding the account to which refer- ence has just been made. 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