ly and Semi-weekly by WHIG PUBLISHING TED, KINGSTON, ONT. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Daily Editiom) jp year, in city year, by mail to rural effices, rte me DF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ONTO-F, W, Thompson, 100 King West, Toreate, , Calder, 2= St. Joha Montreal, YORK ~ Ingraham-PoWers, Inc, Avenue. GO-~lingraham-Powers, Inc, 19 La Sallie Stree y to the Editor a ly over the actual mame circulation of The British Whig nticated by the Audit Bureaw of intions. COME TO CANADA'S LEAD- ING WOMEN. published of the ------ The British Whig extends to the "emecutive of the National Council 'Women a hearty % ton. A week or, two ago we i ad in our midst ther Associated oa of Trade of Ontario. Many portant matters of grave national 'Goncern were discussed, but none, }6 will venture to state, of greater pce than those that will be d at the sessions of the exe- of the National Council today nd tomorrow, The National Council of Women, h became an incorporajed body 1919, represents all that is best sanest in Canadian thought and today. It is composed of seri- inded, able women, who take wital and intelligent interest in welfare of Canada and Canad- ins. The executive is composed of jo outstanding women of the or- tign, and the Limestone City, Jeb bas played such an important in the history of this country, d feel honored that these high- women are meeting here this y important matters are sched- for discussion today and to- : , including the communistic )ols problem, the drug traf, im- on, household economics, an moral standard, etc., and we much good will result from meetings. The British Whig that the visit of these distin- d Canadian citizens will be a one and that they will carry with them pleasant memories Kingston hospitality. ATTITUDE, statement of the Prime Min- outlining his reasons why he seeking a seat in the House ymmons before Parliament as- again illustrates the differ- n the Liberal' and the : mind. Jn a sentence idea Is that the people rule; the Conservative idea gain power and remain in pow- has stated In effect choice Of government for {ate future must rest with mtatives the people chose No person in Canada has Hutely accurate idea of the 'division of opinion among opr \ No person for a certainty just will swing. Mr. welcome to ed and little if any destructive cri- ticism could have been offered against such a course. One must give Mr. King credit for remaining true to his high political ideals and the tenets of his political faith. He might have taken the easy road to a tegrporary personal if not party advantage. He did not do so. He let pass an opportunity because he is firm in his belief that the people's representatives of last election day must make the decision for them- selves--the decision whether the Liberals are to continue in power or whether the Conservatives are to as- sume office. From a pufely party standpoint, one may conceivably argue that the Prime Minister has made an error. | But there are occasions when party has to be cast aside and other con- siderations taken into account. For instance there is the setting of a pre- cedent. Nothing intimately related to the present political mix-up has ever occurred before. Mr. King, of necessity, therefore, has to have due regard for precedent.--ife desires to take no step for purely party advan- tage which might hereafter be cited as a precedent for any group of men in power. He has avoided one way out of the difficulty which might re- act on those political principles to which he is pledged. Mr. King is guiding his course according to thé highest and best Liberal thought. More and more people are beginning to realize that his method is the right and proper ome. Canada has a Prime Minister who will not stoop to political trickery. ONE PROBLEM THAT THE NA. TIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN SHOULD TRY TO SOLVE. Shella Kaye Smith, who probably stands higher in the estimation of | literary England to-day than any | other novelist except Thomas Hardy, wrote a book recently entitled Joanna Godden. Joanna was a plain | matter-of-fact woman, who owned {and operated a sheep farm very | successfully. She became infatuat- ed with a very commonplace sort of fellow and later discovered that she was about to become a mother. The discovery | awoke within her a realisation of the shortcomings of the father of her expected child and much to the disgust and hypo- critical shame of her worldly-wise sister, she refused to marry the man, preferring to bring up her child her- self in her own way. i ! Joanna was a strong-minded wo- man, but after all she was the creation of a fiction writer, and in fiction it is possible to do things that are difficult of accomplishment in real life. In real life, it is not easy to defy the conventions, and in real life, also, unmarried, expectant mothers are not all wealthy sheep- farmers. ~ What oan be done to help solve the problem of the unmarried ex- pectant mother? Have we not ostrich-like, stuck our heads in the passes that the details of an un- fortunate. case are not published in the public press. We had ome a few months ago in Kingston. As a result the girl is dead and 'a man is in the penitentiary. A couple of years ago the distressing case of Ivy Patterson shocked this provines. Yet We do nothing. Should not an effort be made to Comtorigh our « various provinces comfo le, and dignified maternity homes for unmarried mothers, where the utmost privacy and secrecy would be observed? And should not some provision be made by the state for the care, maintenance and training of the children born out of wedlock? Would the establishment of such an institution tend to In- crease immorality? We do not think 80? On the other hand it would save the lives of many who in their be- wilderment, when the tragic dis covery is made, turn to any source for aid, and of necessity, often fall into the hands of unprincipled men and women, with disastrous, and too often fatal, results." The British Whig believes that this is an age-old problem that should be faced with twentieth- century common sense. Thomas Hardy, years ago, ridiculed the double standard in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," yet to-day it is still the woman who pays. it is true we now have laws in Ontario that com- pel the fathers of children born out of wedlock to pay for their main- tenance until they are years of age, but should we not go a step sand long enough? Seldom a week] permit these places to go back, re- I magked Mr. 8. L./Squire, deputy { mi Hister of highways, while discus- sing improved highways and their influence on communities, True, it is a sorry commentary on human life that the second. generation in certain | Pride and a ¢ivic spirit which will not The same can also be said, not only in these modery times, but also in past days of certain villages and towns. This was not due at all to changed conditions of roads or any- thing else, but simply because peo- le simply failed to keep up the standard which had beem set them by leaders of the past genération. Active, Bpergetic; progressive men can keep business in their own towns every time and against big odds. BENEFICENT RULE IN INDIA. / A fine editorial tribute to the bene- ficent rule of Great Britain in India appears in a recent issue of the Christian Science Monitor. Referring to the common fallacy of reading into reports from the East the notion that India is a mass of disaffection and on the verge of chaos and ruin, the Monitor quotes from an article by Sir Montagu de P. Webb in the Asiatic Review, which shows that under the "beneficent and stimulst- ing guidance of Great Britain, the country has been making steady and continuous progress .n all directions; that her people are, on the whole, good natured, peaceful, alert and in- dustrious, and not unappreciative of the value of British institutions and of British connection." Sir Montagu sees India stronger, from an econo- mic standpoint, than any other divis- ion of the British Empire, increasing the quality and amount of its yield of rice, sugar cane, wheat, jute and cotton. Industrial undertakings are growing. The-output of coal, &s well as gold, lead, saltpetre, iron, tin and | mica, is considerable. The cotton |and jute mills are expanding, as ex- | tensive manufacturing establish- | ments in the United Kingdom know { to their loss. In the last official year India sold surplus products valued at over £288,000,000 after provid- ing for a population of 320,000,000, while at the same time its imports amounted to £255,000,000.. BEduca- tionally and politically, marked pro- gress is apparent. The country is on the way to self government, though this progress is impeded by its num- erous divisions in race, language and religion. The intelligent people of India themselves recognized that the achievements in s0 many lines of progress are due largely to western ideals. Reforms have been institut- of the conglomerate races to absorb them. The Monitor says: "There is a debt of gratitude owing to British rule which the critics, in their seal for the cause of 'down trodden peo- ples," should not overlook." EDITORIAL NOTES. ' There are still a few houses in town without a garage on the back lot or beside the front door. "British industrial conditions are improving." Good, Britain has sought long for this accomplishment. The Grabski Government in Po- land has retired. May be it had enough goods to do so from its name! ' French journalists have a really hard struggle trying to keep tab on the politicians who are'in and out of the abinet, Have you begun to think about Christmas? This always precedes Christmas buying. The merchants are stocked for the event. The golf season. is over and a lot of mén who miss the healthful exer. cise are ordering 'cord wood, split and sawn to stove lengths. The fez has been banned in The- key, but it is worn in Canada and by men who never "crossed the burning sands" except in . & lodgo ---------- Mayor Mitchell, Windsor, recom- families does run to seed, or die out. | ed in a manner equal to the ability Eri Paris. Despatches confirm the announce- ment that Kemal has banned the Turkish fes.. The proclamation, it appears, was issued immediately af- ter he had heard a tourist in Con- stantinople singing "Where Did You Get That Hat?" A Chicago woman, suing for wivorce, explains that her husband belongs to a cult known as "Bibli- cists," and every Sunday, after at- tending services he comes home and | beats her as a part of the religious | rites. Possibly the husband in - this | case was spoofing his unfortunate | wife, Two hundred years ago the New York Gazétte made a modest ap- pearance in that city, It was com- ducted by Mr. William Bradford. It was the forerunner of the great pro- fession of journalism in that city, Mr. Bradford himself was born in England and he first attempted to start a newspaper in Philadelphia. Kingston bas scores of practical honest men who should be in the Couneil directing eivie administra- tion. Jt also has hundreds of in- tellizent persons on the voters' lists. Cannot these two elements be brought together to the advantage otf Kingston? Let us get the men for the job and then elect them. Sales of over one hundred patent medicines has been placed under ban in Ontario by the Provincial Board of License Commissioners, acting in conjunction with federal authorities. The medicines and remedies affect- ed are those containing u high per- asntage of alcohol andwot sufficiear- ly medicated to prevent their use as beverages. ------ In a recent address at Belleville, W. C. Nixon, agent-general for Or- tario in the British Isles, in speak- ing of immigration said that it was hard to get people to leave a coun- try which gave the people a dole when they were young and a pene | sfon when they got old. And, to use | an inelegant expression: "Aint it the truth?" LOOKING AROUND Kingston's milk inspector has spoken, and declares that, despite assertions to the contrary, the stables and cows of all milk produc ers selling milk in Kingston are in- spected at least twice Pearly, and more oftén if he thinks they need Jt. } -- | i "A New Brunswick man prophesies that potatoes will reach ten dollars a bag during the winter. If there is any chance of that, a food controller should be appointed to keep the prite down to not more than five a bag, like peanuts. It is so long since the reeve of Kingston township had a warm de- bate in the city council that no doubt he enjoys a little sparring at Catara- qui. What the township couneil should have done was to have had the complete report of the provin- cial audit published in the mnews- papers and paid for it, so that all the ratepayers could have read the details. The deputy reeve was very modest in asking that only four copies be typewritten for the benefit of the ratepayers. If the Canadian Club has gone out of business, it is good to see that Kingston's Reading Club is still a live organization. This oldday club must bring back pléasant memories to those who have been members of similar organizations. Once more Napanee could not stir up & criminal case - for the assize judge, and the sheriff had to go down in his dip and fork out the price of a pair of white kid gloves. What Their Lordships do with all the white kids presented to them is a mystery. Perhaps they : put them where royalty puts all the municipal addresses presented to them. So long as Queen's rugby team fis the finest and most convenient fa] winning Intercollegiate afid Domin- is exceptional value. - BIBBY'S The Men's and Boys' Suit 4nd 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. $37.50, $40.00 and $45.00 "Our $19.75 |" Our $25.00 Overcoat Special Four smart shades to choose from. Sizes 34 to 46. BIBBY'S Ulster Special is a real humdinger. rich shades of Grey, Tan, Heather, Blue and Lovat. Sizes 84 to 46. . Pure Wool Cheviot in News and Views. Fifty-Fifty. Wichita Falls News-Record: sul, the modern girl knows as much about a needle as the modern boy knows about a bucksaw, Can You Beat That? Ottawa Journal: A burglar, find- ing no money in the cash régister of a Montreal butcher shop, carried off a basket of eggs. So, thers are more ways than one to make a but- cher shell out. The Reading of Fiction. Oshawa Reformer: Of course, fice tion that is obtained from the lib- rary shelves is good reading or it would not be there. It {is not trashy. These books are of the kind that (pegple. should read, and more Dove GO them In theie Feading, It will do them good to become more fond of such reading. But it is in- teresting to note that adults go in less strongly for the "heavy" read- ing. while more than one-quarter of the juvenile reading is of that type. Moderate Tariff the Solution. Winnipeg Free Press: From self- interest, Ontario went in favor of tariff stability of the upward variety. And the west, if it followed pure self-interest, would demand a slash ing reduction in the customs duties. Perhaps it will some day sink home to Canadians east and west that the only practical and fair thing to do is to compromise on & moderate tariff, and that this must be the ultimate settlement of the tariff issue. Where Milk and Honey Flow. Almonte Gazette: With a twenty- one million e¢rop of honey on their hands, the beekeepers of the Domin- fon are faced with a serious mar- more of this delicious Canadian food product used in Canadian homes, re- placing, if necessary, imported fruits and table luxuries that excel our honey neither in palatability nor in alth value and which take a heavy fh toll from our national réve- npe. New Goods ~NEW FIGS. ~NEW DATES. ~NEW TABLE RAISINS. ~NEW STUFFED PRUNES. ~NEW SWEET CIDER. & CO. PH 20 and 990. Abdominal Supports | Elastic Stockings Reducing Anklets Arch Supports DRUG STORE 'PHONE 3438. * 185 PRINCESS STREET (Mined by D. L. & W. Raflway) - The Standard Anthracite of ~~ | America, : } é i | SOLVAY COKE | The Highest Grade Coke produced | in the United States : And Remember-- It is not our guarantee that makes our Coal the "BEST" Coal, but the quality of the Coal we sell that enables us to make the guar Crawford "Phone 9. THE HOME OF GOCD COAL }