EDA Gt RN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE FAMILY DOCTOR. | away or stolen. Henry Ford was Those of us who have known him put at the head of a committee to at his best will be sorry that the old- | Investigate the matter, and at the fashioned family doctor appears to|end of three months he and his as- be passing. The specialist and com- | sociates gave it up. He found that munity health service are combining | thére was not even a trace of a 4 forting and reassuring 'to know that |§% the balance of trade is substantially | in our favor. It is better to have it' that way than the reverse. To the! extent that we have invisible exports, as we undoubtedly have, we are that { BIBBY'S rly var OL Managing SUBSCRIPTION RAVES: (Daily Edition) yy Joat: OT Dh suk F«TOWN REPRESENTATIVES y 33 St. John St, Moatresi, W. Thempuon, 100 King Street, W,, Toronte published of the the Editor are i actual name Attached of the beat job printing Canada. don The circulation of THE BRITISH : WHIG is sathenticated by the ABO . Audit Bureau of Oirculations ~The early fish gets the worm, Greatness: Mediocre contempor- to cut down his sphere of usefulness. He filled a large place in our rugged pioneer period and down to coms paratively recent years. He Is still indispensable in districts beyond the sphere of the city surgeon and phy- sician. In discussing this evolution, Dr. George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefellér Foundation, talked very frankly the other day about the prob ability of the family physician being crowded out. Said he: "Such an outcome is to be view- ed with concern. The well-train- ed, properly equipped, experience: general practitioner of ability, character and personality, is a fundamentally valuable person. He is a good diagnostican. He sees his patient as a whole. He knows his peculiarities and ecircum- stances. He can decide when to refer him to a specialist and when to protect him against the very real danger which is threatened by a narrowly specialist point of view. He cheers and encourages, warns and commands. He is not only a physician but a friend and coun selor. The disappearance of the] general practitioner would be al serious loss. The stimulating philosophy of individualism with its insistence upon independence, initiative and ambition, seems to be embodied in the general prac titioner." Dr. Vincent thinks the general practitioner will survive; but he will have to meet the new conditions. He will have to keep in touch with the aries. Conviction: blossom. Former friends: Those who form- "erly were useful to the great man. > A barber seems out of place at a resort. You must tell him to trim | you, The Indians had g hard life. But they didn't have to listen to popular Every once in a while you see a prize-winning poem or story that is very good. Bxample of faulty European gram- mar: "What makes you dun me like you do do?" "Mdrriage is an institution from 'which too many are quitting before graduation day. Example of husband having the Jast word: "Blah! You haven't got the nerve to shoot," The sun's rays reach the earth in only eight minutes, #0 no. wonder 'they are so hot. labratories and the best thought of his time. A grievance in full| he will probably cease to be the ple- | never | turesque personality he was in our | Thousands of cases like this caused | The country doctor, or village doctor, was known by everybody and was everybody's friend. He answered all calls and treated all diseases. He took his pay when he could get it. His life was a cross-section of the physical troubles and social trials of the en- tire community, The family doctor was loved as well as respected. He knew the In- ner life of many homes. He was friend and counsellor, as well as healer. He was the best-kn3wn man within his balliwick, and that is why he often got into Parliament. Have ing got there, he was usua od; for, while he was at ry for from three to five months each year, some bright young graduate from the 'medical college moved in and appro- priated his practice. That has hap- pened to many scores of doctors. The growing tendency in the medi- boyhood days. {the New York Times declared that [the primary director had apparently medica] | Many times registered In doing this| 80d paid for, yet the Shipping Board | voucher for over $300,000,000 of ex- | penditure. The Shipping Board expended {about three billions and a half, and | | the net result was several hundred | ships which were later found to be | utterly useless. The most recent | offer for the whole lot was $1,700,- | 000. In the entire annals of war pro- | fiteering nothing approaching the | ghastly story of the American Ship-| | ping Board has ever been.uncovered. | | From start to finish it was a saturn- [alia of mismanagement, incompet- | ence, and wholesale stealing. Before {a committde of the Senate it was | proven that an account for a pair of | inges, worth 80 cents, had been { hamdled by so many different "rings" | that it became $387.80 before being | paid. That was found to be typical [of téns of thousands of cases. Al- | though the final cost of the Shipping Board was three billions and a half, it was conceded by the investigating | tribunal at Washington that nearly | two billions had simply been stolen. No vouchers of any kind exist for over $700,000,000 of the total out- lay. ' In the case of the Air Board, as cautious and unemotional paper as allowed his name to be "used as a rubber stamp for anybody who want- ed a million." 'It was conclusively established in connection with the operations of both the Air Board and the Shipping Board that supplies on & huge scale had been paid for eight and ten times. In one instance, a carload of lumber was shown to have | been delivered thirteen times and as | as received actually got a foot of it. | the Times to suggest that all invests. gation cease and the lost billions he charged up to the "waste of war." Looking back on the black history of war, we must all gee that part of the great rise in prides was due to a psychological cause. It was in eévery- body's mind, the moment hostilities began, that war meant a tremendous advance in prices. Nobody seems to have paused to ask why. Had they done so, it would have been dificult to find a logical answer. We had no hesitation, for example, in conseript- ing the farmer's son, but we regard- ed his hog as sacred. Had the prin- ciple of conscription been gpplied to supplies as well as men, it it is obvi- ous that there could not have been such serious profiteering. Thus it 'came about that while men in vast numbers went to the battle fronmt, and gave their lives to the cause of freedom, tens of thousands staid at | | cal profession is toward specializa- | tion. As Dr. Vineent points out, it| is the tightening competition from | such highly trained men that is con- | stantly pushing the general practi-| tioner further back or taking his business away from him. The tale- | will have been well spent. home and made fortunes. If Mr. Baruch's gift leads to the discovery of a way of preventing the repetition of such a sickening story the money Let us all hope, however, that the oppor tunity will never recur. If wars have much better off, and judicial examination of our posi- tion as a trading nation, gives us the assurance that ne other country is perhaps doing as well, It is a rea- sonabl® expectation, having regard to our potentialities, that we will continue to grow in all that makes for genuine strength. NATURE LORE Wallace Havelock Robb- One day, last June, when I 'was || afield getting bird pictures, and sit- ting at times on nearby rocks or fences, just watching the processes of nature, I was out of luck, or, as some might say, I was not having success in finding birds to study. It was a warm day, and I had let up a little towards noon, for the best times are early morning and late afternoon, and I was not tak- ing my work seriously. I had lost interest and was weary. About this time, along came a fifteen year old lad, and we chatted o bit, sitting on the fence. I was glad of his company and he was glad of a rest, for he lived out on the edge of the town and had a long way to walk. ~~ This boy was a quiet type of humanity. He could grin like a basket of chips, but was not heavy on the big talk. Bvery different kind of bird I mentioned, he mumb- led, "Get some of them at my place. * | Every time I mentioned some sort of tree or bush, "Got some of them down home." Every time I said anything, he grinned and, "Yeh, we've got lots of those." Well! It gets a fellow's goat after a while, you know, and I began to look at this lad with a bit of a ques- tion in my manner. He had a frank, open face, and seemed too scber to kid me with jokes, and yet, he had a peculiar grin of secret satisfaction - which puzzled me to the point of getting down off the fence and doing a littla serious thinking all my own. So, I said to this contented man- nered lad, "Fishing is great sport." "Yup," says the lad. Then I thought maybe I had found something where we could both be on even ground, and he would not have any advantage over me, so I picked on fishing. I would tell him about what wonderful trout fishing we have up in the mountains and how the trout streams are not more than a mile or so from camp and how 'we enjoy several good catchés every season. ' That would be fine; I would swap fish stories with him and he would not be able to show me anything in that line which would outdo me. Yes, that was what I thought I would do, but I took another think when he just grinned more than ever and said, "Git them too, and don't need mountains." 7777 What's that you say?" said I. in very great astonishment. "Why, what do you take me for, to be tell- In fact, a calm | id ~~ size of a robin. It likes the vicinity of green woods and likes to nest in holes in orchard trees. It has a grey throat and breast, shading into yellow lower down on the belly and underparts Its long, light brown or rufus coloréd tail is "conspicuous when it flies about. It has a harsh note, not very musical, and sometimgs folks have these birds in the orchard and do not know it, as it is sly. Why it likes cagt off snake skins for nesting material is unknown. It may think that the skin will scare away all enémy birds. How each pair manage to find the necessary snake skin for almost every nest is a question that will send a naturalist crazy if enough folks get asking, for he cannot answer it. The Kingbird, the Phoebe, the Crested Flycactcher and the Wood Pewee are all cousins and all eat THE MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SUIT SHOP ~ OUR BIG SUMMER SALE Suits, Shirts, Underwear, f§ Hats.and Jf At Wholesale Prices A truly genuine saving event NG == Tear Queen's University; eight rooms; hardwood floors; good cellar; furnace; electric lights and gas; a bargain at $4,900.00. BRICK DWELLING « nearly new, gas. This se cheap, as the owner is leaving town. We have at present consider- able funds to loan on city pro- perty. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance Agent, ~~ 81 Brock St., Kingston, Ont. Phones 2780-w or 1797.J, emormous quantities of annoying in- sects. able 'that food gets deposited in the form of fat in different parts of the body. It would appear to be only reason- any one who seriously for you. 4 BIBBY'S Limited Headquarters for Queen's Sport Goods Abdominal | Supporters, Shoulder Braces, Elastic Hosiery. Private office for dis- play and fitting. Experienced fitters. DR. CHOWN'S Prag Store 'Phone 348. taught the world anything it surely is that they are as wasteful as they are futile. "goes after" reducing weight, to the extent of denying himself some food, would likewise have sufficient "stuff" ing me with your 'Yups' thet you have this and you have that, for everything I name in Nature?" phone and the automobile have shortened the distance between rural That © One good thing about a resort is that you can enjoy the view every day without tipping it. It 18 well to be fastidous, but a new divorce sult every season is go- The reason a man doesn't try on every hat in the shop is because he really intends to buy one. The little things count, But they 't count accurately, and that 'makes them good caddies. Russia claims to be out of debt. _ Even when the meek inherit the doubtless they will keep up ) habit of meekly paying taxes. -------------- You can't always tell whether it! 'erime publicity an agent of the favors, or personal publieity. ; -------------- 'ot must reason from effect to There is only presumptive that Ananias had progeny. "The young Chinese wish to start war with Great Britain and Japan. ¢ man at Doorn once felt that way. | ean't hurry Nature. Debt col- oh homes and the city specialist, and they are also among the adverse forces against which the family doc- tor has to contend. The colléges are also helping to eliminate the doctor of boyhood re- collection. : They are now sending out thoroughly trained and well- equipped men, who bear little re- semblance to the rather weakly qualified practitioners whose places they are taking. These modern graduates will never know the hard- ships and handicaps of the country doctors of half a century ago, nor ¢an they fill in the life of the com- munity their place. There will be gain, however, on the side of skill and usefulness, : Yet those of us who ean look back to an earlier period in our national development will miss the gruff but genial old family doc- ton. He served, and served at great sacrifice, his day and generation. TO STOP WAR PROFITS. Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, of New York, appears to be among those who do not believe we have seén the end of wars; for he has just given the Walter Hines Page School of Inter 'national Relations $250,000, to be used in "finding a way to take the profit out of war." It is expected OUR TRADE BALANCE. Our favorable trade balance, as between exports and imports, has grown during the past three years from $142,716,593 to $284,429,106. This has come about because our im- ports have slightly decreased and our exports have very considerably in- creased, To be exact, our exports amountedto $945,295,837 in 1923, and to $1,081,361,643 for the fiscal year ended 31st March last. To realize what that gain means in the comparative sense, it is only neces sary to point out that our sales abroad in 1900 had a total value of $183,237,656, and in 1914 of $455,- 437,224. - Part of this growth has, of course, been due to enhanced prices. That was why we showed a total of $1,.- 286,658,709 In 1920. Prices were then at their peak. But the plain truth is indubitably clear that we dre now producing more and selling more. We are advancing most satis- factorily in commerce, both domes- tic and foreign. If we hear com- plaints about depression, it must be | understood that the underlying cause | 1s in some degree to be found in the fact that more people are constantly not all succeed. i ik Between 1902 and 1914 there was) exceed our exports. The adverse bal- atice during that period was sl embarking in business. They can- k not a year that our imports did not No answer! This boy got off the fence, slowly, deliberately, said he guessed he would go, and started off. It was no time to argue, so he had me for company, for I told him I was go- ing to see for myself. When he said it was quite a walk, I invited him to come in my auto. He did not say one single solitary word all the way. : 'When we arrived, his mother, who wis indeed motherly, met us and made me welcome. It would take me too long to tell all I saw there. It was the most nat- ural garden I was ever in, with not one artificial thing about it. Pigeons, hens, a dog, but no cat. Apple trees old enough to have holes in them and every hole with a bird's nest. One hole had a great crested ftiy. catcher nest and eggs and the usual cast off snake skin, a peculiar thing about this bird, for a snake skin is generally in the nest. Two bluebird nests with young; several robin nests; our beloved "Rossignol," the song sparrow, in an old can; two wrens, one in a hat on a post, a hole through the crown to let them in out, the other in a watering can on the fence; an oriole's nest, swinging so low that we at once seut for lumber and built a scaffold HR fs i Body | of Pours By James W, Barton, M.D. The Real Cause. I was very much interested in the appearance of three prosperous look- ing men, at, or just past, middle age, who were walking down the street. They were of average height, but all three of them were very stout, their weights ranging from about two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds. They were deeply in- terested in what one of their num- ber was saying, and unconsciously as 1 passed them I-likewise listened. It was as follows: : "What's the use of talking about it, arguing about it, or reading about it, we all know what's the matter. We all just eat too much, that's all there ie to it." \ . 1 would have liked to have joined It's unfortunate, but it is only too true that the overeating, and the engaged preparing plans for new Rideau school, and they will be ready for the consideratisa of Board of Education at a special meeting to be held next Tuésday evening. or "grit" in him to go a sté$ further and take some regular exercise. His reduction will be twice as] rapid, will be safe, and will give him healthy muscle for his fat. PLANS FOR NEW SCHOOL Will Be Considered at Meeting on Tuesday Evening Next. ' Architect Drever has been busily the the Just as soon as the plans are ac- cepted, the next move will be to call for tenders, and it is the desire of the board to award contracts so that the work on the school may be um- dertaken as soon as possible. members of the board. hope to have the work on the new school under}! way by August 1st. The Cost 'of social service in England is about $5,000,000 per day, says former government official. , Detroit woman seeking divorce claims her husband pawned the gas stove to buy bootleg liquor. matter of overweight. It states that the company is afraid of all its over- : Hei heli] £ Es FLOWERS for every occasion. Member F.T.D, Kingston's Leading Florist H. Stone, Manager Phones TT. Residence 3808.w,