GOVERNMENT IN TION. fest superiority to the that the Meighen cohorts showed to less advantage in the house. This is the more appareft since opponents of the administra- tion are themselves at odds. servatives declare that the has not been made lower. to its logical basis, criticism of the site directions. fault it be--Is that it has gauged public opinion with such nicety that 3 extremes havé been avoided, a policy with which all sensible and moderate ent | noople will agree. " the public SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) P-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: k « 33 St. Johm St, Moatreai. W. Thompson, 1 $ King Street, W. to the Editor are published over the actual mame of the of the best b CR Fhe circulation of THE BRITISH ~~ WHIG is authenticated by the A BO Audit Bureau of Oirculations ----. Another thing that is against thd law is the public. A pessimist is an optimist who thought too much. You can't get on your feet by keeping them on the desk. Some stenographers can't spell 'Wich better than their bosses. i Our guess is that one of the first rds Eve learned was '"'mine." i" A cynic is just a sentimental op- timist who expected too much. Christianity is easy to understand '@filess theology is offered in explana- Words mean little. Very little of plumbing you see actually is b. ---------------- might be worse. Fluctuations prices never seem to affect Crime doubtless seems horrible to the criminal after his liquor out. 'Driving in a great city is danger- 3 Some steel worker may dent bur top. Once there was a man cheque stubs agreed with the nee. ---------- communists are losing ground Bulgaria. They are seven assassi- behind. other of our troubles is inability b Btdy excited until the spell of vir- ) gets results; sl astonishing thing is that should have so much cabinet al available. ------ is estimated that it costs about 1000 to educate a boy, not count- EB the lawyers' fees. -------- trouble is that men do not try ive civilisation for one another {from one another. . ------------ 'Well, the government merchant © is typically Canadian. It is gE beyond its income, i a -- They say that Sweden has no flag- ph That isn't so bad. She has beautiful scenery. 4 ------------ In Burope claims he 1d 151 's old. We claim 'that his clock about sixty years fast. . i ---- nice thing about getting married ® is the blissful ignorance con- the price of coal. . ------------------. It Is estimated that there is h oll in the earth yet to cor- 878 pi f¢ officials. hare, "| "this § sentence: "Lot's not The attack on the administration in the matter of the making up of accounts, for instange, was a disastrous farce. The Prime Minister showed by a certificate from {a firm of accountants that the bal. ance sheet conformed to those of previous years, and an unpatrioti¢ | blow, suggesting dishonesty in separ- {rest of the public finances, was | quickly and effectively countered. | While on this matter of the na- | tional rallways it may be asked who | was responsible for having the Grand | Trunk Railway system being made |a charge upon .this country? Who brought into being the National Rail- | way system? The Conservative gov- | ernment determined that it should [not be allowed to go into liquidation and the present administration is re- sponsible for carrying on control. They deferred t6 public opinion ip | taking the system entirely out of { politics and giving it a fair chance. Are they to be blamed for all the expenditures, debts and difficulties Decidedly not. | The railway is in the nature of an | industrial enterprise, conducted for | gain or profit; the business of the government is not of the same char. acter. The National Railways are an | Industrial corporation and the gOvV- ernment has no desire other than to give the country the fullest informa- | tion on the financial situation. Noth- | ing is being concealed; nothing will be hidden and government owner- ship will be given an opportunity to succeed, even In the face of the tre- mendous handicaps that the National system has fallen heir to owing to the manner in which it has come {ato being. | encountered? WILL CIVILIZATION DIE? Five eminent historians have been asked, and have answered, the ques- tion as to whether or not our civil ization will survive. It seems to have been assumed that a historian, with his intimate knowledge of the past, would be able to answer such a question better than anybody else; but 'the point is debatable, although it is not proposed to debate it here. The discussion seems to have had its start with the publication of a book by a German named Oswald Spengler, who took rather a gloomy view of the outlook. He maintains it is possible to draw a chart of his- tory and to fix upon this chart, through a study of correspondences or "analogies," the exact place of our own age. Western culture he believes to have been born out of LHe Dark Ages, around the year 1,000 A.D; to have reached its zenith about the end of the seventeenth century, with Descartes, Newton, Bach, Leibnits and the state system of Louis XIV; to have entered In- dian Summer in the eighteenth cen- tury and to have begun the ultimate downward arc of its ecliptic at the beginnitig of the nineteenth century, when, he says, it lost its productive, regenerative power and petrified into mere "'civilization" -- the external shell of an inwardly dying culture. The Western cycle, this theory con- cludes, will complete fits course about the yeap 2,000 A.D. Like most German writers, Spen- gler is both presumptuous and dog- matic. As the result of his specula- tions, a number of European scho- lars were asked to answer the fol- lowing .three questions: 1, Is it possible to forecast the future by analogies drawn from the past? . . 2. Is the destruction of European civilization eonceivable? Looked at from any point of view, | the government is in a sound posi-|the replies of these questions could | Minister of Finance calls "an alarm, tion. - They have shown seh mani-| be given; but that would mean much | ing increase in the public debt." This Opposition | more space than is available. never | Con- | tariff | should have been put higher; the achievements of science. | Progressives are dissatisfied that it|the forces of nature has endowell | when the Mackenzie Reduced | men of the twentieth century with | ment assumed power to the intense government from both parties is be-| cise. cause at one and the same time they [Morality catches up with the devel-. have not gone in diametyically oppo- | OPment of technique, European hu- | But its fault--if | manity is bound to destroy itself. | THE DAILY present government reduced it by This is what the ex- Univer It would perhaps be interesting if | $3,000,000. It | showing was made in spite of the! must suffice to say that they are all enormous burden that was left by | qualified and non-commital. The "if" | the government's predecessors in| looms large in them. They are un- | office. animous as to but one thing, namely, Many obligations were left unful-| that the greatest danger menacing | filled by them which should not have our civilization is the abuse of the been . incurred, but which, like a Mastery of | foundling, were on the doorstep King govern« Some of the more striking obser- | satisfaction of the great majority of Unless the development ofthe people of the Dominion. NATURE LORE Wallace Havelock Robb The migration of birds is a bit of a mystery. We used to know practic- ally nothing about it. All we knew was the fact that the birds went South in the winter. But every Spring, when the birds came back, folks would get to talking and being curious and--well, they just have to be answered, that's all, for curiosity never lets go. Take the swallows, for instance; they arrive from nowhere, all of a sudden. Yesterday, we'll say, there was no sign of them, and here they are in the old place, Some of the most striking obser- vations by these critics must be re-| served for another occasion. It | might be said, however, that they fdentify the growing materialism of our time as a serious factor in the problem. As men wielding large in- fluences in national life have lost the spiritual vision, civilizations of the past have tottered and fallen. Whether or not such a condition could develop in our time, sufficient In force to threaten the social struc+ ture, is a matter as to which thera is room for two opinions. Since, however, all ancient civilizations 'rested on a foundation much narrow- er than ours, it is doubtful if ana- logy is apt. At the moment, judged by the test of human service, we are advancing rather than Teceding in all that makes for social strength and survival; but there are undoubt- edly other and very baffling factors in the equation. day, about the first week in May. 1 was walking down the main street in Belleville and the Martins had just arrived. They were not there the day before, because ¥ had wondered what was keeping them. Well, there THE WORLD'S JEWELS. they were, going in and out of the South Africa has produced dia-|0ld holes in a store roof edge and | I had an example of this the other} monds to the amount of 90,000,000 | for all the world like ourselves, when carats since the discovery of the gem We ary ng ter i Absence, . v days after tha was in i . > Hers . 2s 00 2 other mines have | prockville ang in the very same kind yielde .810, carats, so far as 5 5 p1ace, on the main street, where expert knowledge goes, and Brazil | og usually look for bargains and has accounted for 15,000,000. The not birds, I noticed Martins chatter- diamonds of the world are estimated ing away and chasing out the Eng- to be worth $5,000,000,000, which | lish sparrows. It is always interest- must be measured against a store of {108 to see the Martins put the spar- gold valued at $8,000,000,000. Wa |TOWS out, for the sparrows just can't thus see the place of Jewels of that Quite make out where they come class in the sum total of wealth. from and you can see that the spar- . | TOws are both surprised and dum- Thejlove of jewels carries us back founded. P mn into thé shadows of antiquity. Gems The Martins are a branch of the of various kinds have been found in the oldest tombs. Babylon had its swallow family and are our biggest swallow. They are lovely dark blue gem market in 4000 B.C., and there were mines in Upper Egypt as far birds and are called Purple Martin, back as records go. The centres of but the male bird 1s a blue black gun metal color, the female a little the trade have at various periods lighter. They live 1 groups ang are been in Babylon, Alexandria, Athens, | oc Die Bong In and out and ' >| gurgling, maybe about what a dirty Constantinople, Augsburg, London, housekeeper Mrs. Sparrow is. Paris and New York. All countries Martins know their friends. A and all peoples have had their jewels very poor man in Montreal stuck up and jewel markets. It would almost séem that men and women have al- ways had rubles, emeralds, sap- a small colony bird house on a wob- bly pole and just to show how hard phires, pearls, opals, diamonds and other gems. pressed these birds are, for suitable colony houses, they surprised him by It was Cecil Rhodes, that great Englishman and dreamer of empire, taking the house.' He did not know there was such a bird in the world and some bird lovers, to whom he had appealed, gave him a real Mar- who organized the vast diamond in-| tin house with spare rooms galore, dustry of South Africa and placed it [and the birds took possession at on its present sound basis. The De | OnCE. Beers Company has paid, #ince its in- ception thirty-three years ago, divi- dends of $254,320,163 on its capital stock of $21,899,260. Nevertheless, it is said by competent judges that gem mining is more precarious and generally less profitable than metal mining. We have borrowed our use of gems from the Orientals, and there is certain incongruity in our efforts to adapt ourselves to the eastern habit in that regard. They do not fit to our notions of dress as they do to theirs. Thus it was that for centuries the potentates of India held the largest store of Jewels known to exist in the world. But we have taken to diamonds and other bril- liant stones as a means of expressing our wealth and advancement in civi- lization. To-day the United States consumes 50 per cent. more dia- monds than all the rest of the world. In 1923 the sales in that country reached the high total of $480,002,- 761. ---Copyrighted. (To be continued daily on this That Fd Pours By James W, Barton, M.D. 'Summer Food. Someone has said that as variety is thé spice of life, warm wealher means nothing in the life of that in- dividual who wears light underwear in thé winter time. However the ma- jority 'of people make the change, and it seems sensible enough when we remember that heat is the factor always. Co . In the cool weather we want the heat, and in the warm weather we do not want it. Therefore it is getting your own heat supply régulated that is important. And where does all your heat come from? From only one source, that is your food. Now what I had in mind was that just as when the warm weather comes, you leave off heavy underwear, and put on light underwear, to resume the heavy again with the advent of cool weather, thus adjusting yourself to the heat, so it would seem to be just common 'sense to' go into the matter of the actual heat production in your body. Thus ia the cool weather Jou turn naturally to oatmeal, butter, fats, pork, puddings, and other heat pro- ducing foods. If however you con- tinue these into the warm weather, you are going to feel the heat more -------------------- PUBLIC DEBT REDUCED. It is curious to note what the Op- position offers the country in sub- stitution for the government's method = of financing. Sir Henry Drayton, ex-Minister of Finance, urged that they should reduce the sales tax and other levies. Another Conservative member suggested that the income tax should be reduced, while the leader says: "Protection, protection, more protection." His former Finance Minister argu- ed that to the extent of $700,000,- 000 goods which are coming in, and which yield a reveaue, should be kept out. In the opinion of the Op- position the government should lower the sales tax, the income tax, give up customs duties and atill CATTY On the business of the country, two-thirds of which is in the nature of uncontrollable expenditure: two- thirds of which is in the nature o? Li fails. 02 ji BRITISH WHIG SOUND POSI-|at a i on the Faculty of Cornell} Valle debt, but in three years the Sd ~ OUR HOLIDAY SUIT SPECIAL The biggest value in Suits offered ii many a day. The Astor... .... The Carlton . . The Chelsea at . . . . BIBBY'S THE MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SUIT SHOP Our Big Holida Specials are Extra- ordinary Values NEW STRAW HATS All the newest shapes and weaves. ! Bibby's Big Value, $1.45 MEN'S FINE SHIRTS Tooke and Arrow Full Fashioned Shirts. Sizes 14 to 17%. 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