- THE DAILY BRITISH - or on pe B Kit {7 8 | A Rd TRE Fe x. ly and Semi-weekly by WHI PUBLISHING le GSTON, ONT. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Edition) year, in city year, by mail to rural offices, 2550 year, to United States (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mall, eash year, to United States ,. fe eaart-------- «TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ONTO--F. W. Thompson, 100 King | Street 'West, Toronto. EAL-F, r, 22 St. John Street, Montre. ¥ YORK « Ingraham-Powers, Inc. 350 Madison Aven CAGO==1) ham-Powers, South, La Street. 1 to the Editor are published over the actual name of the he circula | authenticated by the Audit Bureau of tions. OUR INLAND WATERS. The other day a ship that had been i ¢ d with steel rails in Belgium | harged her cargo at a wharf in | should be called upon to pass ex- This was not the first time | aminations before they were compet- troit. _ocean-going vessel had made use 'our inland waterways; but the oc-| nce was nevertheless so rela- | constituency, in Red Deer, Alberta, rare as to be deqmed worthy a place among the press dis- tches. This steamer drew 15 feet o1 , and therefore had some dif- ty in negotiating the Welland which ordinarily has a depth the mitre sills of but 14 feet. this instance, howeveY, the water little deeper than that, There jas never been any obstacle to ves- 8 of 14 feet draught passing from Atlantic to any of our inland 8; yet very few have ever tried The reason is wholly economic. the time involved in going h artificial channels. And the chief ground of objection t the proposed St. Lawrence peaking broadly, the larger the mer: the heavier the overhead. 'order to make a profit, she must "able to move at a steady speed 'avoid delays. Time in that case vital a factor in the fixing of as is distance. That is why vessels do not use our inland rways. There is, of course, one if reason. They are unsuitable. type of steamer which operates @ great lakes, and may be hand- 'with safety in the canalized ches, are totally different from which are suitable for the ILWAY EARNING POWER. American finanejal paper has ( d that the Canadian Pacific 'not be able to earn its usual 10 cent. dividend on common stock 'year. This it does on the fact thus far there has been a pkage in net operating earnings. Canadian roads, as well as a ma- in the United States, have not able to hold up with their re- 'for 1924; but it would be rash me they may not recover all 'has been lost before the current is out The Canadian Pacific be in a peculiarly favorable posi- $14,000,000 September. The | to office when they should be sitting Ine, 19] | ship. tion of The British ac! 250,000 miles of railway into frou] nine to twelve groups, and are there-{ fore concerned in what happens in the matter of mergers in Canada. They are mot moving hastily. Nor| should we. Every aspect of the pro- position should be thoroughly digest ed by us before a single positive step is taken. Impulsive optimism | | brought about our railway problem, | and every consideration of prudence demands that we should not blunder | again. The terms of the proposed amalgamation are just as import tant | as the thing itself. { CHURCH WORKERS. convention in a lay-| At a Universalist Northern New York, Mr. Gay, men, insisted that his observations, extended over a number of years, led him to the conclusion that the churches were not giving the young people enough to do. "We should make church going," he said, "an in- ducement. Give the young peopie work to do in the church, responsi- bility and find new ways of entertain- ing them and keeping them inter- ested in the church." Mr. Gay has touched a weak spot in all churches. The venerables cling in the pews and letting their sons and daughters carry on. The young | folks have the driving force and the] qualities of sociability that will gather and hold the rising genera- tion in happy association and fellow- Give youth a chance. TRAINED CANDIDATES. Do we need better informed candi- dates for parliament? This is a ques- tion that some of the thoughtful men | of Canada are asking. Some think any | candidate for the high office should be learned in history and economics and to ascertain their fitness they ent to to enter the lists as candi- dates. Up in Michael Clark's old The News holds that if such an ex- amination is an unattainable ideal then "is there any reason why parties should not pick their candi- dates a long time ahead and them the chance of studying the poli- tical situation and the questions which are of importance to the coun- try, so that when the election actu- ally comes they can discuss those questions with real authority?" The proposal is worth consideration. BRINGING UP. CHILDREN. President Coolidge says the pre- sent day need of the youth, of Am- erica is "more home control' through parental action." He has wisely said, the home, the corner stone of the nation should control youth pre- ferably to the constant demand for governmental responsibility in the rearing of children. Too many par- ents are neglecting their duty in the real well-being of their children. But then some parents cannot lead for their upbringing had been sadly neglected. Haphazard ways in rear- ing children is always disastrous both to the child and the state. JURIES. Federal Judge Bondy's court in New York was at a standstill. Sev- eral persons had demanded a jury trial and there wasn't a talesman in sight. Excuses of various kinds had enabled many called to escape jury service. So the judge took three de- puty marshals and went out to round up a jury from the streets. ¢ It wasn't so long ago that revolu- tions were fought to establish the cardinal principle that every man is entitled to a trial by jury. In fact, the ruthless activities of the czar's secret police and the failure of many poor Russian peasants to obtain jury trials was ome of the underlying causes of the Russian revolution, Ana yet in the United States its citi zens seem to think so little of this right that it is difficult to obtain Juries. SELECTIVE EDUCATION. There was a time when it was said that the children of the poor were not fit subjects for education and when the perils of popular schooling were forecast with dire results to the good order of human society. We have changed all that, is the convic- tion of the Montreal Gazette. The little red schoolhouse has become the signal of democracy, and {lliteracy stands without any valid excuse. Yet, withal, the wider scope and univer-| sal suffrages of education have begot their own difficulties, one of which fs | attention for | amenable to culture. | reckoned a dunce at school. {ley found it a terrible task to write standard. They pull down the aver- ! ages and spoil the returns. What shall be done with them? The question is whether it were better to try: to fetch up the whole regiment to a medial line or concen- trate upon the brighter pupils who evince some living enthusiasm. And this is a nice point. Dr, Dickie holds that the teacher should specially at- | tend the divine spark and let the laggards at fourteen years of age or thereabouts go their ways. THere is some plausibility in this contention. ! John Ruskin held this view. Give | all children a groundwork of com- mon educatign, but reserve special the elect minority Such is the plea set forth with considerable' skill. All the same, it must not be push- ed Too far. The divine spark is sometimes hid. Every child is not a genius. All pupils cannot be pro- fessionals, and genius itself betimes ripens slowly. ' Sir Walter. Scott was Hux- Examinations are not a final test of brains. Nervous chil- dren are apt to be misjudged, The differentiation complained of is not confined to matters educational, for it obtains everywhere--Iin mart, fac- tory, office, family and church. Nor an essay. | is it gotten rid of by releasing the | tardy pupils to "prepare themselves for some useful work," seeing. that any standard, high or low, must con- front the like variation of temper | and talent. Our school system must needs adapt itself to the precise con- ditions that a democratic schedule imposes, and from this arduous task there is no escape save a selective method which would benefit the elect group- but would not fulfil the much broader design of universal educa- tion. The school code is being gradu- ally pruned of its pedantry and re- vised for wider and more general ap- plication than the needs of any par- ticular class--such, for instance, as those who adopt the teaching pro- fession--and in this movement of a school course directed towards prac- tical arts of life as well as its refine- ments lies a reform which should ameliorate the difficulties attending academic routine. TOO DANGEROUS: One weapon of war is too danger- ous to use against even rates, That is disease germs. The California Board of Health has voted a proposition to combat rats by spreading disease among them. Theoretically, if some disease could be found to which rats were susceptible, but to which human be- ings and all useful animals were im- mune, that would be an ideal way of getting rid of man's smartest and most persistent enemy. But the health authorities hold that not enough is known of diseases to be sure that even the rattiest of rat diseases might not spread pesti- lence elsewhere. So the rats will be shot, drowned, smothered, poisoned, starved and trapped, but not infect- ed. HOW FAMILY SPENDS MONEY. Jealous eyes, remarks the Mone- tary Times, are watching the amaz- ing progress of the automobile in- dustry. Men who are engaged in feeding and clothing their customers feel that their products, regarded as first among the necessities, comforts, and luxuries, 'are being neglected through this new perversion of the public taste. Here is an estimate got out to show how the average family spends its money annually: Automobiles and supplies, $420; women's clothing, $236; tobacco, $100; furniture, $87; men's cloth- ing, $85; theatres and movies, $60; shoes, $50; phonographs {prior to 1923), $48; jewellery, $42; radio (1925), $25; electricity for home uses, $30; electrical appliances, $10.- 88, These estimates are quoted in a ciréylar issued by an electrical com- pany, which asks the reader to guess "which of these items brings most actual service and saving of labor the family." A casual inspection of the figures shows them to be errone- ous, however, that they will bear the slightest criticism. They are quoted here merely to show the relative im- 'placed on automobile ex- penditires. As a matter of fact, the annual outlay on automobile ana automobile supply industries in Can- | pope 'ada is less than $250,000,000, 'while the total economic production of Canada annually reaches $3.000.-1, 000,000. The assumption is, of course, that| & family aad shoistors the Saople of blems also. That problem is to have only as many churches and ministers as are required to serve the people, and to support those churches ade- quately. The movement for church unions, {| which is timidly beginning, is based in part on the tolerance of the age. It has become absurd for like-think- ing persgns to maintain separate churches whose grounds of differ- ence long since ceased to exist. But it is based even more imperatively on business grounds. Preachers must eat, like other people. If a village can support one ministers or starve five, sooner or later "economic determinism' is go- ing to teach that village toleration. CURES FOR COLDS. Science is to beat our grand- mothers in stifling the common or garden variety of colds; it has con- quered other afflictions and is now to tackle the basic one. The Uni- versity of Amsterdam is asking 8,000 persons to help in finding a cure. We hope 8,000 cures will not be promul- gated for we are dead sick ol advice when we are sneezing and bellowing with a beastly cold. Over here, if you have a cold, says the Brooklyn Eagle, your grand- mother will say: "Get into bed, wrap yourself up in flannels, drink bone- set tea and break it up." Your wife will say: "Keep out of draughts, keep warm and it will disappear." The cook will offer hot lemonade as a sure specific. Your son will say: "Take a brisk walk in the open air-- the colder it is the better, That's what my school instructor tells me." your chauffeur will recommend quin- ine and your bootblack aspirin. "Stuff a cold and starve a fever" will be flung at you by friends at lunch-time. And your mind will re- call that, after all, it is the feverish- ness that makes a cold, a common or garden cold, uncomfortable. Perhaps there is no country on earth where so many amateur doctors are ready with suggestions, As for the qualified doctors, if you are true-to-type yol you keep away from them. You know they will ask you to go to bed and fear they will ask you to give up smoking. Eventually nature does the trick, the cold goes and you are all right till the next time. All honor, then, to the Dutch sci- entific experimenters. The Uni- versity of Amsterdam is a wonderful ! {nstitution. The common or garden cold may as well crawl into its hole at once if they are in earnest and can concentrate on any plan of ex- termination. ---------- EDTORIAL NOTES. The Watertown Times hopes the crime wave isn't permanent. Peat has been discovered in Peat- erboro. Where else could it be found? The hunting season has started. It ig a wise cow that stays near the barn. «British Swoop Down on Commur nist Nest" is a newspaper headline. But they found bad eggs in it! If women are really as crazy about clothes as they are said to be, why don't they wear more at a time? Contentment lies in your own world. The fish wouldn't enjoy fly- ing or the birds find pleasure in swimming. In the world's eighty-three govern- pients but - fifteen have reigning kings and queens; thirty-six have presidents. In Australia Federal and Labor parties are campaigning in the elec- tion. The two party system is back in harness there. A man's home cannot be invaded without a search warrant, But in many cases this is done, and it does much to kill respect for law. Those who ehforce law should respect its obligations. Crime in the United States is esti- mated to cost tem billion dollars a year. The war didn't cost half that for the same country, but it will be easier to coll the war debt than that resulting from crime. people in Muskegon, Mich., over the of $20 worth of he rout Htigation followed and $20,000 was the amount of law Stanfield's Underwear BIBBY'S An Overcoat Display INTERNATIONAL IN ITS SCOPE Hardly a nation that can contribute to real Overcoat quality and style but what has representation in this magnificent display. There are wonderful hard and fleecy fabrics from English looms; Tweeds and Bannockburns from Scotland; fine Friezes from Ire- land; Montagnacs from France; Chinchillas from Italy; rich Norumbos from our own mills. It is without question the finest and widest Overcoat display we have ever presented--a world of Overcoats from a WORLD'S PRODUCTION No better Overcoat values to be found anywhere in Canada. 519.75 *25.00 *30.00 Some Real Beauties at $35, $40, $45 BIBBY'S Headquarters for Queen's Sweater Coats Tooke, Arrowand Lang Shirts A quarrel started between two| LOOKING AROUND Now the Irish are said to have been descended from the Eskimos. That is better than the Darwinian theory which is that we are all de- scended from the apes. According to the provincial Weath- er Man, it does not look as if we would have any Indian summer. There are some Kingston folks who would go farther than that and de- clare that we have not had any sum- mer this year at all. - 4 Kingston residents whose homes are infected might be interested in knowing that when a bed-bug has eaten its full it retreats to a crack or crevice, and digests its mieal in the course of two or three days. No matter who is elected here to- day, all the people can rejoice over the news that the locomotive works is to be busy in the winter and that many men will be employed there. In sections like this where =the roads are good, the people have no reason for not getting to the polls on a federal election day; but there are many rural sections where bad weather hold up voters. In Kingston, only the sick should have any excuse over not getting out to record their votes. That was a funny kind of exodus trom Kingston, whose list includes the names of scores who are still here. After this, Kingston folks will have to be wary and not go visit- |} ing across the border near election 'time or they are liable to be includ- ed among the emigrants. When the locomotive works is or- dering five thousand tons of coal, it is not for making bonfirés on Hal- lowe'en. Up west, apples are being given away for the picking. A few hun- dred barrels of these would have made nice gifts for hospitals. So Jong as this cold October counts on the winter schedule, we will no mind. People will expect as the sult of this old-fashioned autumn spell to have a nice warm May In 1926. ; "Red" Newman of the Plunkett Dumbells' company, which appeared at the Grand this week, has a re- markable resemblance, when fn civies, to a certain Kingston clergy- man. Can you guess the name of the pastor? v otadar tars vere politicians Ww being made to stop tramways sway- ing. A convivial Londoner suggests that something should be done, too, about the revolving lamp posts. An Almost Forgotten Crime. Vancouver Province: An almost forgotten crime is recalled by the arrest of an Alberta cowboy charged with stealing a horse. In this age of flivvers and flying machines' '"Dob- bin" should be exempt from unlaw- ful conversion. How Much Do They Want. Grain Growers' Guide: The glass industry in Canada is already pro- tected from 15 to 35 per cent. The same is true of textiles which Mr. Gibbons put among the industries suffering from inadequate protec- tion. One wonders just how much the tariff should be raised, how much |} more the Canadian people should have to pay for theif glass or their clothing, to enable these industries to live, American Isolation. New York Times: Germany now enters the League in full equality, while we, who supplied the chief in- spiration and the chief example, still linger without. All the great affairs of the world--its politics, its trade and its projects of social betterment --are transacted in a forum where we have no standing. What would our rulers at Washington do to any- one else 'who presumed to debar us from that great privilege? a Farms For Sale 1--Farm of 137 acres near village of Sydenham, where there is a first class high school; splen- J dia stone dwelling with good Sehier, furnace and cistern; y mood out-bulldings and iY of them; about 66 acres of first class soil now under | cultivation. There is abund- ance of wood and water. Make us an offer. 2-76 acreg near good village, good buildings, in good rapais, plenty of wood and Price $5,000. 0 acres, all tillable, of first class land, about 4 miles from the city, good b buildin well watered. $4,200. Money to Ph ire insurance. HOLIDAY GIFTS + It is not too soon to think of them, and something from the celebrated house of "VAN- TINE" is sure to please. Incense Burners and Incense In unique designs and de- lightful Oriental perfumes. Bath Salts and Pow- der Compacts-- new designs and odors. DR. 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