"im (aR oo= ¥: a WE FSV EN and Semi. iy by WHIG PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. RUPERT DAVIES THE PREMIER, British Whig deated by the Audit Bureau Now, that Mr. King has heen again turned to Parliament should there be an end to all that unfair, un- jie and despicable propaganda that 8 been continually used against , King since the war? The great ty of people are fair and just except, perhaps, during the heat election campaign are disposed fair to opponents. e and time again newspapers should scorn to stoop to su ch presentation have tried to in- their readers against Mr. Ki insinuating that he shirked his during the great war. Nothing be farther from the truth, and the truth about the splendid 'rendered by Mr. King to the | during the war has been re- told, let us emphasise it more in the hope that it will to definitely and for all- time end to the wretched propa- that has been allowed 16. in 1914 Mr. King, who had been a student of the social f the country, became identified the Rockefeller Foundation. chosen by this organization , Some special work in' connec with the settling of industrial tes. It is of course a wilful presentation . of facts to say Mr. King was working for refeller, He had no more to do 'Mr. Rockefeller than a Carnegie i has to f Carnegle, on cancer research work has with the late a doctor work- to ith Lord Atholetan, because the r gave $100,000 to the fund for important work. ng the war Mr. King did most table work. He acted as mediator strike at the works of the o Fuel and Iron Co. whose as required to provide import- important war supplies paid r tribute to Mr. King, the Mr. B. G. Grace, stating King's work "constituted a ce not only to this country Allies during the war." by stances of this illness were peculiarly distressing as Dr. King had been re- cently married and a wife and twin sons were dependent upon him. This increased Mr. King's responsibilities heavily. On August 30th, 1916, his father died. His mother became critically ill about that time, and after illness of a year died December 18th, 1917. Mr. King's brother, whose eondition was the result of fllness and exposure while serving with the Army Medical Corps during the South African War, was during this time in sanifafiuis apd he and his family were belig supported by the present Prime Minister. The life of Mr. Mackenzie King has been very largely made up of service and sacrifice, and it is to be hoped that the last has been heard of the calumny that has been made to do duty so often since the war, in the efforts of the Prime Minister's enemies to' drive ome of Canada's most devoted public servants out of public Hfo, \ wn GOVERNMENT CONTROL, ° ~ A representative of The Toronto Star has been Investigating the operation of government control in British Columbia. Among others he interviewed Rev. A. H. Sovereign, the Anglican minister of St. Mark's church there, and who has resided in the city for 18 years. This is his opinion: "I do 'not think the government control plan is a success. Economi- cally, the province is spending $1,- 000,000 a month, with no return of alue or permanence. It is estimated that bootleggers sell an amount equal to the government sale. This is a terrible economic drain. "Morally, I believe we are in a worse condition than with the old open bar. In the old bar system, a man would go in and take a drink and go out. Now he sits down at a table, he can drink more and prob- ably will, "And there are women in our beer parlors. No woman ever would go into the old bars. But they are al- lowed in the beer parlors and in many cases the results are terrible. "I would like to see a real domin- fon-wide prohibition system tried and tested for ten years along with the U.8.A.--and if that is not a success, let us try some other plan. But most certainly our B, C. system is not one to be recomnidnded."' There is nothing in the statement of Rev. Mr. Sovereign to encourage Ontario to follow British Columbia's example, POLITICIANS AND NEWSPAPERS. Mr. 0. R. McIntosh of North Bat- tleford performed a service for every newspaper when he stood up in his place in the House of Commons, on Monday and. interrupted Hon. S. F. Tolmle, of Victoria, who Stated that Mr, Dunning controlled the news- papers in Saskatchewan, Mr. Mc- Intosh, Who owns two newspapers in Saskatclewan, promptly told Dr. Tol- mie that no government controlled his papers. It's a habit politicians have-:-both Conservative and Liberal--this talk- ing about "controlled" newspapers. 'We Beard a lot about it during Union government days. It's all a myth. The day of the politically controlled organ is gone, hever to return. Most newspaper men value their independ- ence as much as a member of Parlia- ment does his. : WHAT'S THIS? What's this? Surely we must be dreaming. Can it be true? And yet it is taken right from the annual re- port of $he Cockshutt Plow Co. for he ending Dec. 31st, 1925. It says that there has been substantial improvement in business in Eastern and Western Canada during 1925, and the Oockshutt Company's sales were almost double those of 1924. Foreign sales have reached a higher figure than In any previous year. Profits from operations after $rovids}. ing for depreciation, amounted to $313,506. Not so bad. This coming on top of the Massey- Harris statement is almost more than we ¢an bear, Our faith in some of our contemporaries is rudely shat- tered. They told us Canada was go- ing to the dogs, business was in a terrible way, factories were closing up and everybody was going to the , | United States. OR, dear! Why are| companies allowed to issue these prosperous-sounding statements, and times. 'Nothing like it to strengthen spirits and activities. ---- The world gets better. At the age when the old-time boy was shooting birds, 'the modern gnes are chasing chickens. Bow legs are a sign: of courage, says a scientist. You bet they are; Especially if the owner wears an up- to-date dress. ¢ ¢ Abd Timcoln through Nancy Hanks was a direct descendant of King Tut, according to a New London, Conn. professor, Why not back to Adam? Nothing in the Speech from the Throne at Queen's Park sounded like the popping of a cork to the listen- ing ears of the thirsty, remarks the Peterboro Examiner, The Bault Ste. Marie Star still harps away that the wolf is poor | stuff. We will word for ft. beast, however. take the editor's We won't meet the In Manitoba there are 31,000 more males than females. What a merry time the girls have in selecting\part- ners. That's were "cutting in" is a desirable pastime. In America, with her intellectual supremacy of the female, politics fol- low the practical line of cheaper hose or prohibition of spirits, is the opinion of a Bohémia writer, A magistrate in London Yous dis- qualified a drunken motorist from holding a driver's license for ten years and confined him to jail for two. Somewhat drastie, but just what is needed to protect the public. A man suicided in a western city. Nothing unusual you say? Only this ~he tried five times previously but failed. He followed Sir Walter Scott's advice: If you don't succeed at first, try, try again. The famous Nikola Tesla, world- known electrical inventor, comes to bat with the prediction that women will 'spon be the dominant sex in af- fairs of the world, with men relegat- ed to the ornamental but useless position of drones. The United Frée Churches of Scotland will allow women to teach but not to' preach or dictate. The canny Scotchman have a task to pre- vent the womeh from doing as they wish, If American capitalists are willing to invest their money in Canada or lieve anything. a ' Punishing the Wrong Ones. Sault Ste. Marie News: It is little wonder that the jails and the prisons { of the country have as many inmates {as they have, Several hundred dol- {lars' worth| of goods were stolen from the burned stores in the Noble Bloek by eo wh and several of ithe eplprits ' were even older. In | some cases boards nailed over doors {and windows were pried off and en- |trances effected that way. These | goods were all taken to the homes { of the thieves, and the parents, fully | aware the goods were stolen, made {no effort to have them returned and the youngsters corrected for their | considered. th Like the Greeks; they considered the thefts honorable so {long as the thieves were not caught. {When thieving is encouraged at ! home there is no hope for the offend- ers. It Is a great pity there is not {some way of punizhing (he parents {of such children, instead of the chil- dren. Military Tales. Toronto Globe: Many, many Cana- dians who went overseas during the years of the war and returned to their homes and loved ones, with no desire for further military service-- unless those homes and loved ones again were imperilled--will appreci- ate this paragraph from yesterday's report of the Hamilton conference of the United Church of Canada: "The question of whether or not the conference should recognize military titles evoked a tart rejoinder from Rev. J. L. Kerruish, of Hamilton. He sald: "Many fellows are strutting about this country parading military titles who never did anything during the war to earn them. Many others earned their titles by fighting foi them, and they have dropped them in civil life." Don't we know them, these strutting captains and majors and colonels! Not a town or village in Ontario but has its specimen, and as for Toron "the woods is- full of them." Some of them went overs seas, some of them saw service--but most in the latter class are plain "misters," and proud of it; they are still soldiers enough to know that the title of rank can properly be used by no one but a professional soldier, a member of the permanent forces of Canada; that military rank titles are for .the parade ground and the armory, and that "honorary" rank titles, under the canons of military and civilian good taste, are never referred to by either the bear- er or those who address themselves to him. The attempt to found in Canadas an ex-officer autocracy by the retention of wartime rankings has been little short of ludicrous, Entitled to Adjournment Greater Britain, let us welcome them, for their dollars will provide more employment and an improved standard of living for our people. The London Mail gets $75 an inch for space in its issue each day, while The London Times has all its display advertising space contracted for for 1926, and is now selling space for 1927. How nice it must be to run a newspaper like that. Worry is un- known. At a Cheshire church for a long time one might have seem on the porch door the text: "This is the House of God; this is the Gate of Heaven." Immediately beneath was a printed announcement: "This door is closed in winter on account of draughts." csi Roald Amupeden enjoyed excel- jént health amid the rigors of the South Pole temperature and also at the North Pole where it is seldom warm. Now, in Los Angeles, he con- tracts a cold and has to take to his bed. This is a Very queer world, and one of the queerest things about it is thé fact that a life-long explorer of the Arctic could catch cold in Call- fornia, $ "News 'and Views: 0 5 Until Then, - Wall Street Journal: The pedes- trian has the undisputed right of Way up to the time of the accident. thus shatter our faith ia certain |m, political prophets and newspapers? Winhipes Free Press, : ' he Conservatives were qu once the House met. If the: goverh- ment had not obtained sufficient sup- port it would have crashed and Mr. have walked into power. not happen. 'The Conservatives fail- ed to rally a majority in the House although looking longingly across at the Progressive benches. It is just as well that it worked out that way. A Conservative-Progressive combina. tion would have been a wholly an- natural alliance--a point that §§ re- alized by all reasonable. Consérva- tives and Progressives. 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