THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Old Boys' Reunion August 1-6 PRESCRIPTIONS Filled with care and dispatch. Sickroom Supplies Hot Water Bottles, Ice Caps, Gauze, etc., Trusses and Supports. Patent Medicines Perfumery and Toilet Goods. We have all the latest. OPEN EVERY DAY (Sundays included) till 10.80. L.T. Best "Phone 59. FOR SALE Bateman's Real Estaty BRICK BUNGALOW----7 rooms, 8 pc. hath 4 electric gogiaic ght, double lot hy NAGS IES cee, 3. ut Eo "electric light. $8,000--Frame, 7 rooms, 3 p. bath, electric light and furnace. $4,000 -- Brick, semi-detached, rooms 8 bath, siecric ght asd $28, deep lot and garage. $5,000--Brick, 6 rooms, 8 p. bath, electric light and furnace, garage. $7,500--Brick, all modern, central.' MONEY TO LOAN. OUSTOMS BROKER ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE. 111% BROCK ST., KINGSLON ee-------------- FREIGHT DELIVERY A SPECIALTY Local and lung distance. All Motor Trucks with Alr Tires. H. L. BRYANT 384 Division Street. 'Phone 1758. ROCK CRYSTAL GOBLETS Beautifully Decorated AND IN THE DAINTIEST DESIGNS These Goblets are of the finest quality -- will not smuage or get cloudy. Let us show you these new arrivals, The price is quite moderate. * 4 4 q! Si For the next month, we will install GAS Pipes imside the wall of your house. Auyone desiring to become a consumer of the best and cheapest fuel on the market, 'phone 1604 for full informa~ tion. If it can be done with heat you can do it cheaper with GAS. Public Utilities Commission C. C. Folger, General Manager. Electric Decorations This year many are making some changes about their property and may have to make changes in their electric work. Our Electricians will be pleas- ed to give you any information and prices on any kind Electric Wiring or motor work. Do it before August Ist and you will be ready for the big celebration. Electric Lamps 25,40,60 Watt . . . .. Five fora $1.00 McKelvey & Birch YOU BUY WHEN 1 The exceptional tone quality in the Weber Piano appeals to the most aesthetic taste, FOR YOURSELF AND BE CONVINCED. AY C. W. LINDSAY'S Warerooms, Princess Street 'The Botanist Quietly Working to Stave Off |{ | Starvation That Is Is Threatening the World 1 | Through the Shortage of Its Food Supply--Interesting Story | Told Kiwanis Club by Prof. R. O. Earl of Queen's. | { How the botanist in his laboratory is quietly working to stave off the starvation that is threatening the { world through shortage of its food | supply made a very interesting story | as related by Prof. R. O. Earl, of | Queen's University, at the Kiwanis | Club's luncheon in the Frontenac | Hotel on Monday. Prof. Earl showed how very much man owes to green plants. They are the only things which can change the radiant energy of the sun into such a form that it can be used By animals for the food that supplies their bodies with energy. Besides food, plants furnish man clothing, directly as cotton and linen, indirect- ly, through animals, as wool and silk, also with much of his furniture, part of his houses and much of his fuel and ofl supply. A world shortage of food was coming. Animal life was steadily in- creasing, in spite of reported birth rate decreases. In 1904 there were only twelve plants of Marquis wheat. in 100 years, elephants, under ideal conditions, would cover the earth. Before the discovery of America the population of the Old Land had been kept down by infant mortality, lack of food, wars, etc. But America opened up new food areas, and medi- cal science has been lessening in- fant mortality and extending the lives of a larger number of people than in the past. The birth rate in England might be dropping but the other factors kept the rate of in- crease in population up to the nor- mal one per cent. There was no fear of depopulation in Canada. Each person nd@eded 2 1-2 acres to supply him with food. Forty per cent. of the earth (13 billion acres) was available for food supply pur- poses. In another century the world would have as many inhabitants as it could feed, a condition which had already been reached in some parts of the older countries. There did not seem to be any chance of reduc- ing the number of England's unem- ployed. - All United States can sup- port is 150 to 200 million, and Can- ada sixty million. Australia will stop exporting in 1975. Can food production be increased? There is not a great deal of hope. The slow increase made in efficiency may stave off the fateful day for a time. In Canada conditions are brighter. The speaker was strongly in favor of a careful selection of im- migrants. Those who came from a race that had contributed nothing to civilization, or who would supply more than the average number to our asylums should be kept out. Wheat is rising in price. This will stimulate agriculture and Canada is headed for a boom, such as favored | the United States, and which may come in the next five years. If humanity could not solve this | problem, conditions such as are found in China would become gen- eral, with high infant mortality and | a famine after every crop failure, claimed Prof Earl The opening of a Plant Research | Laboratory at Yonkers, N.Y., last! September was evidence of an at- tempt to find a solution. An im- portant problem was the control of | disease and insect pests, one which | had been further complicated by the | appearance of virus diseases which | have still eluded the botanist's mi-; croscope. Real Columbuses, these investigators are, who refuse to ac- sant defeat. Allan Meiklejohn expressed the club's hearty appreciation of Prof. Earl's lecture and his vote of thanks was seconded by Columbus Hanley. On motion of R. E. Burns and Col. Johnson, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Archibald MacDonell, who is leaving on Sat- urday for Calgary, was made an honorary member of the club. President Moore reported that ar- rangements had been made for the Rotary Club to visit the Kiwanis Club at the latter's meeting on Aug- ust 11th, and the Kiwanians to re- turn the visit on August 25th. At both meetings there will be speakers from the United States. The Kiwanis Club is to hold a picnic at the new motor tourist camp on August 17th. Vice-President Johnston, report- ing about the parade next Tuesday night, asked all Kiwanians to turn out in similar dress, with straw hats with Kiwanis bands and canes. Ki- wanian Copley said the float was coming along well. The booster was George Vanhorne, who was introduced by Reg. Craw- ford. George Hanson won the nice prize of a silk shirt. The guests included Rotarian A. L. Davis, A. Copley and C. Stone, Nova Scotia. Wen. Anglin was ser- geant-at-arms. Kiwanian Halliday led the singing. Whether the club should assist in re-covering with ceders the city's '"Welcome™ arch was left to Fire Chief Armstrong. i The Maple Leaf Flag | "To have Introduced a Union Jack defaced with a Canadian em- blem would not have been history. and therefore quite incorrect. To have done so would have been pre- sumption on our part, nor is it, frankly, our desire or intention to in any way foster such an idea. The Union Jack as it is, is good enough for every Anglo-Saxon in Canada." (From a recent letter to thc Globe, dealing with a booklet on the his. tory of the flag; the capitals are ours.) "Deface:--To destroy or mar the face or surface of; to izjure the beauty of; to disfigure." (Concise Imperial Dictionary). In one naively signitcant word the Globe's correspoadent has let the cat out of tha hag. Ilcre is cne of the ideas that have inspired all the drum-thwacking and all the loud protests against the recently ap- pointed flag comiani'tee --and isn't it a gem of an idea? The Maple Leat is not good enough, forsooth, 'o be placed on the sams flag with the Union Jack! It would contaminate it, disfigure it--detface it! Take a good look at that word. It sums up in a nutshell the attitude of a certain type of mind towards every- thing Canadian. This amazing insult to our naticn- al emblem was, without a doubt. un- intentional--the involuntary expres- sion of an ingrained habit of thought, inmogently unconscious that it was being insalting. So much the greater is the need for a protest. We have put up with this sort of thing about long enough. It is high time to let ft be known that ths Maple Leat is a device which will not shame the proudest flag on earth. * There will, at the same time, be general agreement that the Union Jack must be retained. Apart from its historic associations, there is perhaps no handsomer flag to be seen anywhere. To drop it would be little short of a crime. "We'll rally round the Union Jack and Maple Leaf forever." The Montreal Witness has sug- gested the adoption of the Red En- sign, with the Union Jack in the up- per corner as usual, and a large golden Maple Leaf on the fly. It sounds good, and would look still better. A correspondent in the Montreal Gazette suggests a similar arrangement, using a modified form of the White Ensign--a magnificent flag, at present flown only by war- ships--with the Maple Leaf in red or green. Either of these forms, featuring both Union Jack and Can- adian emblem, would satisfy every- body except a few extremists to whom the Union Jack or anything else of British origin is anathema, | and a few at the other extreme who | think that Canada has no right to] an emblem or a name or an exis- tence of her own. ---------- Anthony J. Ellwood, South Elms- ley township, died last Tuesday, after a brief illness. 'He is survived by his widow, two sons and five daughters. The Iroquois branch of the Cana- dian Bank of Commerce is to be closed on July 31st. ON A LONELY ORUISE ORDER A CASE - Try our new 4.4 Beer by ordering a case sent to your home and prove its excel- lent q PROBS: --Wednesday, fair and cool. I / For the attention of all Eastern Ontario! A GREAT TWO-DAY SUPER-BARGAIN SALE! At the click of 9 o'clock Wednesday morning the Steacy store will open a Two Day Sale event of stupendous saving op- portunities--a sale that no one within shopping distance can af- ford to miss. We offer our entire stock (except Jaeger goods), compris- ing $200,000 worth of the finest quality yardage goods, House Furnishings, Men's Furnishings and Ready-to-wear at a drastic reduction for cash. Sale Price Less 20% Everything within the four walls of this great shopping centre is included and every article is marked in Plain figures, subject to a 20% discount, . 80c has the purchasing power of $1.00 Here ls an extraordinary offer. as we wish to amplisside not only the sensational saving, but the quality and the quanti- ties of the goods on sale. : ALL SALES FOR CASH. NO APPROS. OR RETURNS. ) !