Semi-weekl Win PUBLIS INGSTON, ON by NG 343 unprofitable St. John am-Fowers, Ine, Powers, Ine, 19 Street. 'to the Editor are published 'the actual mame of the elreulation of The British Whis is Suthen:icated by the Awdit Bureau of THE ELECTION OF WARDEN. The general opinion seems to be | the wardenship of the county of nac for 1926, shod gO to Mr, Jamieson, the Well-known f Storrington township, Mr. on has been reeve of Storring- for the past three years and last was defeated for the warden- h ip 'by the narrow margin of one Aside tow the fact that Mr. on has been an active and ble member of the county coun- and is well-fitted for the posi- n of warden, his many friends out that Storrington township 'third highest rated township i he ¢ounty, and it has mot been with the wardenship for ¥e years. The residents of ship feel they are entitled honor this year, and are hop- amieson' s tellow-coun- his «andidature. | TL 1 Mr. W. F. Nickle introduc- resolution at Ottawa debar- Canadians from receiving at the hands of His Majesty, 8 was expressing tie feelings of the at majority of the Canadian peo-. at that time. There had been erable trafiicking in honors in Country during the war and had spread to Canada. There 00d den) ot barter about the 'the general impres- honors. were arranged, in return for value It 4s an open secret in No one was more griev- Majesty at the wholesale honors w rowsmith to connect with the Ottawa trains will not seripusly affect peo- ple bound for the Capital, as the time of the train leaving Toronto has been changed to allow a connecr tion at Napanee with the train leav- ng here about four. The most serious change is that involving the train locally known as: "The Tweed." What the reason is for advancing the time that it leaves Kingston by two hours and a half is not quite apparent. Unless it tainly be made to have the time re- main as it is at present. Everyone realizes that ecomomies have got to be effected on our na- tional railways if they are ever to get on a sound financial basis, and, no doubt the officials are not making any them very serious consideration, We can hardly expect the management to retain unprofitable service--and in the day of the radial and motor, local trains must be on the increase. At the same time it is only fair that the people affect- ed should be given a hearipg. Kingston 'is not the only city affected. Brantford, too, has been hard hit by the policy of economies. The morning train has been taken off the Buffalo and Goderich run---a service which serves a profitable trading territory contiguous to the Telephone City. That city is making an effort through its parliamentary representative to have the matter further considered, and has suggest. ed to Sir Henry Thornton a Diesel engine car or something that will not cut the territory off completely. In the opinion of The British Whig the most important matter, so far as Kingston 1s . concerned, is the change in the time table of "The Tweed," curtailing the shopping time of those on that line by two hours and a half. " MEETING THE DEBTS. There is a movement in Belgium to ask every workman to work a half hour extra each week, his em- ployer to .pay overtime for the work, but the money to go to the state to pay back a loan for the stabilization of the Belgian franc, says Chester H. Rowell, an Ameri- can writer, ; Doubtless it will not be done. People like to have the actual check for the taxes signed by somebody else, even if the real payment co back to them. But the only dif ence betwaen 'this . proposal and most systems is that this time the workers would know that they were paying the tax, by their own unpaid labor. ; © Actually, that is the way most taxes, and especially these taxes for the rehabilitation of Europe, are paid. The workman works harder, or longer, and lives worse, and out of the product of labor for which he is actually not paid the debts are met. A USSFUL FERTILIZER. Fertilizers are made from fish by-products and yield much money. There are five of these plants in British Columbia. The fertilizer is used extensively in Japan. Bermuda and the West Indies export it from England. While Nova Scotia has a plant for the manufacture of fish glue, it is sald that only one fir® along the Atlantic attempts to make fish meal and fertilizer, and' this firm has the product finished In England. The maritimes should go into wider manufacture of the pro- duet. Canada herself is an importer ot fish meal. With the great fish in- dustry at her command, she should be an exporter on a large scale, and no better field offers for the in- | dustry than on the east coast. ann nad « COURTESY WIDELY ADVOCATED Courtesy will stand quite at the top in the reguirements of all city employees, says Mr. Charles @G. Hanna, the incoming Mayor of Fhe texparers foot the bills," is a) {valid one, an effort should most cer- changes without having given | ©8 | had lost eight sons. " {them to poor families of Doorn. usually have the Intelligence to understand that their actions con- stitute a large part of what may be called the personality of the firm. So the competent efnployee is al- ways attentive and polite, whether | speaking face to face, or over the telephone, with people having busi- ness with the company. All along the Mne there has bec intensive cultivation of good feel- ing, and a tremendous growth Hi the appreciation of the value of good will, It has made business easier and more profitable, it has increased production, profits and wages, and made a tremendous number cof people more happy withal. EDITORIAL NOTES. Europe is suffering from floods. We always thought them a spring malady, fiippantly says the Toroato Globe, Mars is uninhabited, so science tells us. Maybe, but we cannot de- cide on the evidence so far pro- duced. In the manufacture of women's wear in the United States more than seventy-five per cent. of the employ- ees are women, An afr service is to be started be- tween Florida and the West Indies. One guess is allowed as to the prin- cipal source of patronage. ke -- The Queen of Siam has been di- vorced because of her fondness for the radio. Hearing too much seems to. be as bad as talking too much. A composer in Chicago has been pursued and kissed by mobs of men and women who liked his music so much. This will be a lesson to him. The late Thomas R. Marshall said what the United States needs most is a good five-cent cigar. How about an old-fashioned barber shop for men only? " An Américan official sent to jail for one year was pardoned after serving eight days. The pardoning boards act faster than the courts over there. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm is still great on "signed photographs." During the war he gave one to a woman who To-day he gives The death of a French servant who was with one family ninety- eight years is announced. Over here some of our servants are with nine- ty-eight families in ome. year, « By Passing 20,000 awe' every year, the Louisville Courier figures out, the State Legislatures are doing all they can to make the nation law- ful, but the people lawless. Why doesn't some one start a campaign against the vice of "mum- bling," "clipping," *'refaning" and otherwise destroying the English language? asks the Hamilton Spec- tator. McGill university has acquired a large Chinese library and may estab- lish a chair in Chinese language and literature, so McGill students may soon be able to check their laundry bills, suggests the Hamilton Herald. New York dealers are reported to be sending repeat orders to England for the brandy-flavoréd Christmas plum puddings, Customers admit their willingness to waive their legal protection and swallow their con victions. The camel, time-honored "ship of the desert," Is reported in a despatch [rom Bagdad to be super- seded by the qutomobile. This will justly give the animal the "hump" in the eOmmonly-applied sense of the word. 'There is much enquiry as to what was meant when a California editor wrote that "there is something that every man can do in the world that will bring Him aividends in the satis 1 faction of aécomplishment News and Views. « Pretty Doggle. London Advertiser: At a fashion- able London wedding the bride had When a Head Needs a Head ! Hamilton Spectator: One thing the head of a department most surely needs and that is a head on his shoulders. Doesn't Want to be a Suburb. Winnipeg Free Press: Trains as fast as planes are predicted. Thank you, on the whole we are as close to Toronto as we care to be. Will Talk Anyway. . Hamilton Herald: "Russia," says Tchitcherin, "will talk disarma- ment." 'The assurance is unneces- sary. Russia will talk about any- thing. . Dearborn's Danger. Ohio State Journal: One danger with which the neighbors in Dear- born, Mich., are threateged is that Henry Ford may eventually become 80 interested in instrumental music that he'll take 'lessons himself. ------ Rome Has Fallen. San Francisco Chronicle: The worst has happenedl. Yesterday we saw a youngster lift his balloon trousers, while crossing a wet spot. Got a Good' Idea. Guelph Mercury: The weather man was extremely kind. The young folks of this age got a good idea of what nearly every Christmas Day used to look like when their parents, were young and free from care. The Nimble British. New York Judge: Automobiles in the United States were responsible for 19,000 deaths last year, and in England for 3,000. The English must be a very nimble and athletic race after all. Too Modern, Lebanon (Ind.) Reporter: Anoth- er man who believes the world is altogether too modern is the burg- lar who broke into an Indianapolis home and, groping in the dark, turn- ed on the family radio, thinking it was a private safe. Canada Needs People. Toronto Star: The country needs morepeople. Everyone is agreed on that, We have far more. country than we are using. In every diree- tion we have undeveloped resources. But while Canada needs more peo- ple and while the country has plen of capital and all kinds of idle re- sources, we need something else--we need co-operation between men of courage and ideas on the one hand and the men who control capital on the other. Sele Exchange: Prof, Leacock is quot- ed in a recent weekly paper as say- ing that he has obtained, in the headship of his department at Me- Gill University, one of the prizes of his profession, and can thus regard himself as singularly fortunate. * "The emolument is so high as to place me distinctly above the pol- iceman, postmen, street-car conduc- tors, and other salaried officials of the neighborhood, while I am able to mix with the poorer of the busi- ness men of the city on terms of something like equality." So there is something in educa- tion after all. . ------ Where Are All the Old Joys? Belleville Ontario: A little bit of snow helps to make a better picture 6! a Canadian winter, but where, oh where, is all the snow gome which used to cover the fences and make necessary temporary roads through the flelds to avoid the pitchholes in the road? Where are the straw rides we used' to enjoy so much with the jingle, jingle bells through the frosty' night? Present generation must have a heated closed car and a pav- ed road for a jaunt into the great open spaces. They do not know what they have missed or they would be jealous of the old codgers and their memories of the good old days, ' ---------- Along a Road in France. New York Correspondent: Coming along a road in France once during the war we halted at a railway cross- &Y | has fallen in Tove with a The have traded at a on the BIBBY'S The Men's and Boys' Suit "and Overcoat Store ple of Kingston and surrounding district who 5 BIBBY'S LIMITED DURING THE YEAR 1925, HAVE LOST NO MONEY and rest assured your wants will b II looked aft during the year 1926. ey A We are the only firm in this district with prices low enough to sell Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings One Price to All without having to offer Special Discounts or the like as means of attracting the buyer. We buy for Cash, we sell for Cash, we make small profits, but we make them often. BIBBY'S Wit and Humor Long Distance Love. Mary: What's the matter Bob? : Beth: Eye strain. with The poor boy chorus girl and can't afford anything but gallery seats.----Answers. . Not Quality. Hewson: 1 failed to marry Helen because of her past. Humphreys: What was the matter with her past? § Trewson: Too long.----Answers. In It's Various Steps. "How do you find marriage?" "During courtship, I talked and she listened. After marriage she talked and I listened. Now, we both talk and the neighbors listen." Welcome Relief. "Why do you feed every tramp that comes along,' said the husband, peevishly. "They never do anything for you?" : "No," responded his wife, "but It's gome satisfaction to see a man eat a meal without finding fault with the cooking.--London Mirror. Something Wrong. A portly gentleman stepped on the penny-in-the-slot scales on a railway platform. The machine = evidently was out of order, for the needle reg- istered only 60 pounds, "Bob," exlaimed an urchin watch- ing the process. "Bob, look here, this old guy's hollow." --- London Mirror, Fine Words. "Can a body eat with these things?" asked an elderly lady, looking at some dental plates. "Madam," the dentist replied, "mastication can be performed with those with a facility scarcely excelled by that of the product of nature." "Yes, yes, I know, but can a body eat with 'em?"--Tit-Bits, A Little Different. Hub: What was that letter you just tore up? Wifey: Quty from one of 17 Telpe tions, trying to borrow 'Hub: SE or eo et rr | What temuted to, they come/ here and are willing to continue~fn it for three years after arrival. This is desirable, says Mr. Bloom in explaining his bill, because the growing inability to get servants is steadily driving more and more families out of separate homes. And this, in the opinion of the Congress- man, is very bad--he even goes 80 far as to declare that it threatens the very existence of the sacred Amer- ican home, the unit on which our noble institutions are founded and whose destruction they cannot sur- vive. That may be just oratory, - but |} there is some element of truth in it. Doubt will arise whether of an ntier certainty it is better for each family to conduct all of its domestic activi i ties for itself or to do more or less co-operating with other families. Bconomics suggests that the second of these plans is preferable, but, af- ter all, the relation between econom- jes and human happiness is not very close. And how about making the woman admitted because of her announced |} Intention to be a domestic servant |) stick to her bargain for three years or even for one? The thing simply |, cannot be done without adopting measures of control amounting to something very like slavery or peon- age, -------------------- A BALLADE TO SISTER AND BUD. Bdward W. Barnard, in New York You've heard that only girls and boys skriétly mind and q Can hope to PRES: those matchless 'Who their p's joys The late December days diffuse. It may be true. I would not choose To change your creed's least vital © clause; But first of all--it can't be news! You must heileve inlSanta Claus! To hush the clamor that annoys My never very patient muse Is well enough; but smugness cloys Bspecially in youthful shoes. Besides. despite all other views, To keep alive the olden awes And still undimmed the mas hues, You must believe in Santa Claus! Christ: And Yappy he that doubt - a in destro in y ys EE nolues. ! Deny him and see what ensues: Sear * children paure! He that forswears forever rues; ' You must believe in. Santa Claus! { We: are still Load i quarters for all sick- § room supplies ang Decessities. DRUG STORE "PHONE 343. 185 PRINCESS STREET Usé a good coal in heater and keep the comfortable. ~~ When feel like it put on wraps, go outside, the snappy fall and wi air set your bio m ing. There is nothing ; in Florida. i ike _ With one of coals you can keep as warm as you v one of them is