BRITISH WHIG 82ND YEAR. Ud EE | Es 1] Daily and Semi-weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING = C0. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. RUPERT DAVIES TELEPHONES Office .. . to the Editor are published over the actual mame of the . circulation of The British Whig tf . THE GRAIN TERMINAL. . The grain terminal question has Deen revived by the suggestion, made in a Toronto interview by Hon. W. 'R. Motherwell, that government grain elevators should be built at Prescott. People who were disposed 'to pass lightly over this matter dur- ing the election campaign, failed to 'realize that there will be a fight be- 'tween Prescott and Kingston inter- 'ests for the foot of the lakes terminal. When Premier King spoks 'in Kingston last month, he advised : people of this riding to elect the ral candidate so that Kingston's terests would receive attention. ton voted otherwise, and 'should the Liberal Government man- age to retain power by reason of Progressive support, as + there ap- pears to be every probability it will, nd remain in power several years, je city's interests are not going to pefit with its member in the op- psition. Never was there a time when the services of Mr. John M. Campbell were more needed ai Qttawa than now to fight the terminal battle for Kingston. It will be a battle, too, for has been declared that Right Hon. hur Meighen, Conservative lead- er, who in the last parliament re- nted Grenville, of which con- ency Prescott forms a part, will no doubt support the claims of gott to become the? terminal. ston has now to fight to have its recognized. It may win out, its action in twice electing an op- ition member does not qualify it ask favors from the present Gov- mment. The building of govern- ment elevators here would probably gult in the addition of a thousand jbitants, and it is population and ustries that Kingsion sorely needs it now. THE TOWNSHIP SHORTAGE. ~The arrest of two former King- np township council officials, on 4 charge of being responsible for a 'shortage of over $15,000 in taxes 'over a périod of several years, caus- 'od a shock to the people of the township and also the city in which 'both now reside. It will be for the 'gourts to decide upon the merits of case, but one thing about the mt of the officials is this: a faulty municipal financial permitted laxity in collec- There was no effective audit 1 about a year and a half agd Mr. Muir's investigation into i township affairs opened the eyes of the ratepayers. Had the town- 's system been corrected ten ago, the present condition ot revealed by further ' audits not have been possible. The of the officials will reveal igs that perhaps the audits have brought to light, in the way of methods, snd other munici- which still have faulty jeated by the Audit Bureau of end of this deadly machine of war, but--and there's the trouble. Brit. ain and the United States have stood for the elimination of the submarine and gas from the weapons of de- struction, but other nations are not so favorably impressed. They think they need to have these dreadful war equipments to overawe other nations and stay their hand in percipitating war. The real fact is that civilized and christianized nations should combine and seek peaceful methods in set- arbitrations, conferences, cencessions and investigations. The League of Nations cannot do everything, but it does help to quiet and quell the war- like desires of men, and with pati- ence and education good results will flow to mankind in days to come. Meantime the great nations should seek a curtailment of armament, and, submarines and gas should be the first to be suppressed. ANOTHER KIND OF UNITY. In Winnipeg there is now sitting a body of hard-headed business men whose purpose is the consideration of Canada's need of unity. They have gathered there at their own ex- pense thoroughly aroused to the conviction that the Confederation of 1867 will never be fully completed until there is mutual understanding and good-will between the various parts of this Dominjon. This alone can bring about the greatest develop- ment and prosperity. This unity is essential if we are to get anywhere. Discord and division has wrought mischief in the past; that day we hope is gone forever. In its place let real Canadians strive to bring about concord and happy relations, even to making sacrifices for common weal, There are difficulties to be sur- mounted, but loyal Canadians never balk. at difficulties and problems. They were born to straighten out and to interpret the Dominion's ! needs and have righted the wrongs of the past. If business men have a task to do they do it and do it well. And because of this we believe the Winnipeg Conference will lay the foundation of a great national move- ment of unity and harmony, a second triumph in our confederated state. The people of Canada have a big part to play in the accomplishment of unity. If they act in the right spirit the great desire can be accom- plished. Let each place catch the community spirit and build upon it provincial and federal brotherhood, justice and conciliation. The home movement of happiness will beget the wider circle of good-will. The church, the schools, the press, the clubs can all share in the movements, can talk and agitate and appeal for a mutuality of purpose that will give Canada that broad, noble and inspir- ing spirit that will link the wide ex- panse of territory into one chain of devotion and loyalty to our beloved land. Let the great movement lead to an enlargement of mind and heart. IMPROVING METHODS. In Hamilton the Board of Educa- tion has created a "control board of inspectors." They will consider school methods, reach conclusions and submit to the Board for ap- proval. It will have the final say. We quite agree with the Hamilton Spectator when it says: "To have a body of experts, in constant touch with local conditions, meeting peri- odically for the discussion of pro- blems as they arise and advising as to the most convenient measures to be taken for their solution, will un- doubtedly mean a gain in the effici- ency of the system. Such an advis- ory board should result in the maxi. mum benefit being derived from the services of the Inspectors, all branches of educational activities | coming within the province of the in- spector controllers." The Board of Education there did not forget to pay a graceful tribute to the veteran inspector, Dr. W. H. Ballard, now nearing eighty years of age, fifty of which he §pent in ser- vice in the schools of Hamilton. To show esteem for his faithful, devoted service he was made general advisor to the Board, that body recognizing his competency to speak with auth- ority on local educational matters. With such an adviser and the board of inspectors, the work of adminis tering the Hamilton 'education de- partment--a task' which grows ever more exacting---will be put on a thoroughly businesslike basis. The trustees have provided "themselves with more convenient machinery for assembling facts and securing action. the | | migrant children who entered Can- |ada during the past three years who are 3 sub-normal mentality and who | { will undoubtedly finally be a charge] on the community. These cases have | | been discovered in the city of To- | | ronto alone, and Mr. Cowley believ-| |ed that they must be zeneral in [large Canadian cities. | The Associated Boards of Trade] {'tor Ontario viewed immigration from | { another angle. They asked for close | | medical inspection 4t the homes of | | prospective immigrants in the British | | turbances if the people and their families were not deemed fit to be) brought to Canada. It would seem a wise procedure for it was most dis- tressing for parents with children, to be turned away at a British port for unfitness and after they had disposed of their possessions. Maybe rather than demand that a sub-normal child should be left behind the authorities winked at the disability and let it come over with the parents and other normal children. But this is not playing fair with Canada, and the Board of Trade proposition would stop any such laxity as has hitherto prevailed. - WEAK SPOT IN GOVERNMENT. Mr. Hume Cronyn, London, Ont, in a recent address claimed that Governments in Canada had abused their sovereign power. He cited as instances the seed grain liens estab- lished by the Dominion in priority to other claims, and the authority granted to the Ontario Hydro-Elec- tric Power Commission to expropri- ate property at its own valuation. 'Mr. Cronyn claims that this is "the weak spot in our Canadian consti- tution."". If this is the case a rem- edy should be found. Parliament can change the law; no constitution- al enactment interferes. EDITORIAL NOTES. men nowadays things, Have we young who say in contemplating "I can't afford it"? Will we have a cold, dreary win- ter, or just a mild one? Please don't worry, for next Apzil we will give the answer. ' Prohibition has its points, grudg- ingly confesses the Stratford Beacon- Herald, but you'll never hear a song like the "Little Brown Jug' about a fruit jar. New South Wales has abandoned proportional representation after having found it impracticable, There has been agitation in Canada for this method of voting. King Tut seems to have been laid away in a gorgeous manner. Noth- ing in these times equal it. But maybe in his day peeple had no other ways of spending their surplus gold! Rotarians, Kiwanians, Board of Trade men, all believers in public seryice should see that the commun- ity spirit is carried out in a practi- cal way by offering their services as aldermen. A Montreal man protests against the thinness of the mucilage on postage stamps. Such a complaint is never heard in Ontario. It must be the excess saliva in Quebec that is causing the trouble! A hundred thousand boys and girls of Canada have enlisted under the Junior Red Cross banner to strive for health, humanity, good citizen ship and international goodwill. As they grow up, they are sure to make a great contribution to the improve- ment of Canada. The Montreal Gazette accuses Mr. King of disregarding "the old rule which holds that a government whose majority in an elected legis- lative body does not exceed the number of its members has no right to continue." Was there ever a government with such a majority? Belleville aldermen are quibbling over paying the deb incurred through" the Old Boys' Reunion there last August. Some want next year's council to meet it. The On- tario says: "Kingston absorbed over five thousand dollars indebtedness of their Old Home Week committee without a murmur and called it well worth the price." : The police enquiry at Montreal cost a mint of money. A judge hear- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1085. | year for turkeys. 'have been included. Mr. Pettypiece 1 i LOOKING | | It does not look as if potatoes | were going to drop in price during the winter, as some local merchants have bought carloads at $3.50 a bag | to put away. Wolfe Island is again shipping hay to the United States, quantities being | tling quarrels and disputes, such as| Isles, so that there would be no dis-| hought there at $11 a ton, baled. It would appear that the U.S. is going to be in need of Canadian hay again this winter. They say that this has been a poor | We will soon | know; when the turkey fairs take | place in Kingston and Napanee, The! year has certainly been an expen- i sive chicken year, When are we ever going to have a cheaper chicken pot pie? No, the Westbrook Woman's In- stitute is not dead by any means. Only the other day it had a meeting and one of the numbers rendered was that touching old song, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie." Westbrook should aspire to be the home of an historic society. Some Kingston girls are being con- gratulated over their bravery at not succumbing to the bobbed-hair fash- fon and for retaining the glory of the woman of the past. ! A North Carolina bishop pleads with the men to grow a mustaghe and show the last distinctive bgdge of masculinity left to them ®y the women. His Lordship appears to think the women would not dare to imitate men to the extent of growing a mustache. But who knows The police report that women have been robbed in a Kingston cathedral while at prayer, recalls to the writer how careful a man was in another church lately. He refused to put his umbrella in the rack at the rear of the auditorium lest it should not be there when service was over. He said he believed jn the scriptural in- junction to "Watch and Pray," even at a church service. If the little squirrels persist in biting holes through the telephone cables they will not receive the same sympathy from those humanely in- clined. %Yhe little fellows should stick to nuts, and let the telephone | wires alone. Next thing we know the railway companies will be invoking the law by charging drivers of automobiles with criminal negligence in running into locomotives on crossings. All of unbiased view will agree that in these days there is no excuse for an automobile colliding with a locomo- tive unless the driver loses control. The railway crossing is clearly mark- ed, and all the auto driver has to do is to slow down or stop. Safety first! That was a great compliment the champion cheese maker of the Em- pire paid to the Kingston fair when he wrote Manager Bushell that he owed a great 'deal to this exhibition for his success across the seas. The Kingston fair appears to have en- couraged dairying and agriculture and not been merely a place for horse racing and midway shows. News and Views. |! Rejected an Opportunity. Toronto Mail and Empire: Ex- Kaiser Wilhelm, it is revealed, re- jected an opportunity to meet a beautiful death in the trenches sev- en years ago but possibly he was then thinking of the prospect held out to him who fights and runs away. Poor Spelling in Schools. Alliston Herald: Some teachers blame Premier Ferguson's doing away with home work for the poor spelling among pupils. They claim that children have to study some time and if they don't have to do it at home, it takes off a proportion of their learning hours at school. Teach the Parents First. Springfield Republican: Parents training must precede child training. It may seem a g undertak- ing to improve parents to the point where they will have good children, but it is not a hopeless adventure in human welfare. For good children are potentially good parents--the thing works both ways. The "P's" Were the M.P.P., Also. Toronto Globe: In the list of the editors who were fellow-members.of the Ontario Legislature with the late T. H. Preston the name of Mr. H. J. Pettyplece of Forest should AROUND {| is exceptional value. choose from. Our $19.75 Overcoat Special Four smart shades to Sizes 34 to 46. BIBBY'S The Men's and Boys™ Suit and Overcoat Shop DON'T MISS SEEING THE TWO LATEST ARRIVALS IN OVERCOATS The Emerson and the Marlow Very genteel-looking garments, splen- didly tailored in the new shades and models. Very English you know and many smart and more conservative models. Real nobby Coats. $ is a real humdinger. rich shades of Grey, Tan, Heather, Blue and Sizes 34 to 46. Lovat. BIBBY'S 37.50, $40.00 and $45.00 Our $25.00 Ulster Special Pure Wool Cheviot in am em nennnd tiom of natural resources. This ac- counts for 65 per cent. of the num- ber of abandonments, in his calcu- lation, and for 57.8 per cent. of the abandoned mileage. In the last five | years about 2,600 miles of railroad pave been abandoned in the United States, the decline being general throughout most of the states. There is food for thought in this statement for Canadian readers. Cannot Pay Large Sums. Montreal Star: France has had the lesson rammed home daily dur- ing the last two years that she can- not pay any large sums either for domestic needs or to meet her for- eign indebtedness. No French statesman could have gone to Wash- ington and made a more liberal offer than M. Caillaux fathered-----meagre as that was--with any hope of; be- ing supported by his own people on his return. It is not a question of what France can pay, but of what her own people say they are willing to pay. -- The Call of the Wild. Belleville Intelligencer: There are strong indications that next year's tourist traffic in Canada will greatly exceed that of the past season, great as the latter has been. Today it is hardly possible' to pick up an outing magazine that does not contain a Miumber of well written and descrip- tive stories of experiences in the out-of-the-way places in Canada. Such stories cannot fail to call to the blood of the American whose ances- tors not so long ago pioneered and broke trails in their own country. Even the women, it is stated, are turning a listening ear to the call of the wild. Undeterred by the oc- casional hardships to be met with on such journeys," many American women will in the coming season ply the paddle, shoulder the pack, and cast the fly along with their menfolk while traversing some of Canada's many canoe routes. Netion's B usiness Magazine. Now that "the tumult and the shouting" over income tax publicity have died, what are the results? Here ate, but not subject to verifi- cation, a few statistics: 11,126,234 persons, looking with open mouth at the Rockefeller or the Ford figures, have said: "Well, if he'll give me just half of the tax, he can keep all the rest." $9,146,263 men and women, look- ing at Charlie Chaplin's $300, against Douglas Fairbanks' $180,000 have said: "Gee, there's somp'n funny about that!" 8,424,165 humorists, noting that i Income Tax Publicity. & chance to compare on property with that on B's, th e might know that justice was being dome. It was right that the levy on that assessment should be uniform and that all should know it was uniform. A just distribution of the burden of taxation is a thing for which our modern states are striving. But publicity of income tax pay; {s no measure even of gross income, and gross income may vary out of all proportion to actual and taxable 'wealth. | New Goods | --NEW FIGS. --NEW DATES. --NEW TABLE RAISINS. --NEW STUFFED PRUNES. --NEW SWEET CIDER. Jas. 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