Published Datly by HE BRITISH WHIG Y PUBLISHING €O0,, LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. W. RUPERT DAVIES ...... President ary TELEPHONES Business office \sesrehresisatraane ~ Seeclal © OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: TORONTO~F. W. Thonipson, 100 King Street West, Toronto. « Calder, 332 St. John wers, Inc, ~Powers, Inc, 19 Street. Letters to the Editor are Are published only over ihe , actual of the writer, The circulation of The British Whig is suthencicated by the Audit Bureau of Direuiatte ns t MR. BRACKIN'S AMENDMENT. Mr. R. L. Brackin, the brilliant young criminal lawyer of Windsor, who represents West Kent in the Ontario Legislature, has Introduced an amendment budget providing for the government sale of liquor under a system of lo- cal option. The amendment was se- conded by Mr. J. A. Pinard, of East] Ottawa. Mr. Brackin and Mr. Pinard may be acting in the interests of their constituents, or, as Mr. Sinclair, in- dicated in the Legislature yesterday, in the interests of themselves, but wa are glad to know that these gentlemen do not speak for "thé Liberal party. We are sure that thousands of Liberals all over the Province will appreciate Mr. Sin- clair's statement in the house Wed- nesday, when 'he repudiated the Brackin amendment. The Liberal party has always stood for advanced temperance legislation because it be- Jleves it is In the best interest of the province. We are glad to know that Mr. Sinclair still feels himself guid- od by the 1919 convention. The liquor question is one that is undoubtedly going to play a very large part in the next Provincial election, and perhaps it is just as well to know where the individual members stand on this importan* question. What the people will do will be determined at the election Rims, - et | BT. LAWRENCE W. \TERWAYS. Congressman 8. "Wallace Demp- sey, Lockport, N.Y., father of the All-American Ship Canal aeross New York State, thinks the St. Lawrence waterway is a. faraway scheme, and he bases this on the be- lief that Canada is too busy in fos- ¢ industry and exploiting its un- i ped water power to give thought to the waterway project. Mr. Dempsey is quoting as' his 'authority for Canada's new posi- tion, the Canadian diplomatic rep- 'resentative in Washington, who has 'expressed himself openly and frank- 10 the Congressman on the Can- plan. This Canadian has been laring, 80 Mr. Dempsey says, thal for many years Canada has been seeking to develop its farming coun- try, particularly the wheat growing itricts of the west, and to popu- thoso provinces removed from seaboard. Canada has drawn ds 'of thousands of rural pop- "those national defense returns which to the Provincial] dHture, | $6,000,000 worth of to Australia an od States, but will retain contro! for developing Canada industrially to furniéh work for Canadians and employment for English immigrants unable to find work in the old coun-| try. Mr. Dempsey argues that Amer- | . ica will not enter into any pact on | the St. Lawrence, and pay at least | one half the cost of the project, un-| less the United States gets one half | of the power. On this, he argues, f the St. Lawrence canalization scheme | will not come for one or more gen- erations. For these reasons he asks thé | United States authorities to develop | a ship canal through New York | State, pay all its cost and derive all of the benefits, as well as to enjoy the Secretaries of War and Navy state they believe are necessary and desirable, The statements of Mr. Dempsey are certainly flattering to Canada and give us reason to be proud of tho material . resources we have. But the Congressman is amiss when he thinks Canada can handle only one task at a time, Will we spend | over $100, 000,000 on the Welland Canal to give an advantage to. the Southern Republic, or will we as Canadians, geek to develop our wat- erways so that western trade wil? flow through the St. Lawrence to Canadian ports at the seaboard and even without shifting cargo cross to Exropean ports? The activity in the New York assembly should not be lost sight of at Ottawa, hut the est thought and energy of the depart- ment In charge of transportation should see to it that trade is not lost to Cavada. Aggressive action is: immediately required. ime mn. SHIP THE BEST. At a meeting of apple growers in Goderich a speaker sald that here- after they would have to give the people of Great Britain what they wanted in apples and not what they were willing to ship them. The Bri- tish market was willing to pay a good price if they got a good article. The same thing applies®o all com- modities. Ship the best, make good money and 'use the seconds for home uses. This is the plan adopted in some of the most progressive export countries. MOUNTING SCHOOL COSTS ------ Cost of conducting the public echools in Philadelphia has risen from about $12,500,000 in 1919 to over $32,000,000 in 1925. Teh years ago the school tax levy was fixed to yield about $8,500,000. Last year it was called on to:produce more than $26,000,000. When the board took over, the management of its finances fn 1911 the school debt was less than $6,500,000. Now the net debt amounts to nearly $3¢,000,000 and the annual debt charge to negr- ly one-fourth of the cost of running the schools in 1919. Teachers' salaries have increased. Materials cost more. But when the need of new ools has been: met and the deficiency of accommoda- | tion overcome, the debt charge ought to remain fairly constant and ordinary expenses ought not to mount as rapidly as they have in the past few years, Ontario schools costs equal to anything above des- cribed.: Let us take a few figures for the City of Ottawa. The Corporation of Ottawa contributed to education for the year 1925 "the following amounts: Public school maintenance $713,926.40; interest and sinking fund, / $187,905.60; total, = $901.- 832,000. Rate $8 per $1,000 of as sessment. . Collegiate maintenance, $324. 306,42; Interest and sinking fund, $101,085.33; total, $425,391.75. Rate $15 per $1,000 assessment. Separate - school maintenance, $267,780.00. Rate $12 per $1,000 assessment, makin, grand total of $1.595.003.75, 12 per $1.000 assessments. Total rate for pub- lic school supporters $11.15 and Separate school supporters, $15.15. The expenditure on Primary and Secondary Education was 36.83 per cent. of the total municipal expen- . CANADA _HOLDS THE JUG. ------ i The Farmers' Sun points out that under the _ Canadian-Australian treaty Capada in six months sent thing" they know --they'R-have an | posed larger channel on the same route, to increase the waterway fac- seventy of $25.6 20 with capital a THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG splitter" or a "trivial country store | keeper," Washington 'was a "trivial sutveyor," Roosevelt was a "'trivial rancher," Wilson was a "trivial] gchoolmaster." Nice smart phrase | which doesn't mean anything! EDITORIAL NOTES, Be happy; it helps to make others happy. Spring is the best substitute for coal that we can suggest. Pretty soon ,k Briand of France wil il be made premier emeritus. Scientist says some day we'll all wear glass clothes, Not such a big step from present summer garb. It is said that motor\ cars are crowding camels off the hiZhways in Palestine. Is that an Oriental tale? There are three kinds of people-- those who do all their own thinking, those who have it sent out, and those who don't bother. Motor caravaning across Canada may be a popular sea-to-sea gymmer holiday stunt this year, Why not see one's own country? . The Province of Ontario bas con- tributed $100,000 to the" campaign fund of the Hospital for Sick Chil- dren. A worthy act, indeed. The charge is made that there is too much card playing among M. P.'s in Ottawa. Women holding hearts and diamonds are accusers. Ontario's mineral production for 1925, was $85,792,636, or $8,500,- 000 higher than 1924, and $5,000,- 000 higher than 1918, previous high. The Watertown, N.Y. Times thinks that with five aero. editions to the North Pole planned for this sum- mer, the traffic cop will be needed up there. In reminiscing, Horatio C. Hock- en, M.P,, concludes: "Boys seem better today." His adventures at school were thrilling. His comment is justified. Seeing an old steam fire engine thawing out the manholes made us think of the days. when one could get a square meal for a quarter with an extra helping of butter. It would be the part of wisdom if the country nccepted the King Gov- ernment as an established fact and the legislators direct their energy to business instead of party politics. Hon. W. E. Raney holds that the great fault in Ontario's education # system js that French is left out in everyday schooling. There are many English folks who agree with Mr. Raney. Scotland is rebelling against the bagpipe. Those complaining Scots don't know when they are well off. If they banish the pibroch, the first American jazz band. According to J. H. Putnam, senior filspector of public schools at Otta- wa, Ontario's adolescent school at- tendance law is impracticable in its present form. and badly in need of revision. He has said something. The women of: pioneer days did not face the rigors of winter with skirts above theig knees and wear- ing only silk stofkings. The women of to-day can be elassed as the hard- fest of histery. Some of them cam stand any weather without a shiver. The party is over. The stock mar- ket's big drunk lasted nearly two years. In that time it stepped high, wide and handsome, says the New York Post. America has been spec- ulation-crazy. The country will be all the beiter for the cooling of this epeculative fever that has been in its? blood. -------- Vessels are to run as betwee prise is purely experimental. If the line can bé run" profitably and ad- vantageously, it will prove a power- ful argument in favor of the pro-| Canada's progress is evidenced for new companies to the nu of iy-one. eS 'with $25.268,900 capital the previous week and with eighty-four : | patrick. Chicago and England. The enter. son Thursday, March 18, 1926. LOOKING AROUND There are a number of Queen's University graduates in the House of Commons at Ottawa, including the members of Kingston and Fron- tenac. The member for Winnipeg South Centre is also an old Queen's man. The three mentioned are Tories, and this reminds ome of a medical student who attended Queen's years ago and during an election campaign caused a great stir by declaring from a platform that if there were to be any Grits in Heaven he did not want to go there, The printer's devil draws atten- tion to the word Sbroadgast," which some people are inclined to write "broadcasted." The little fellow wishes to say that he is unable to discover any such word as "broad- casted" in the Oxford. or any other dictionary. There is the word "half- masted," but only men like Shake- 'speare, who sometimes used singu- lar verbs for plural ones, would be permitted 'the liberty of using the word "broadcasted" for the purpose cf lofty phrase effect. It is officially announced that there are 3,334 persons in Ontario who have the lawful right to make home brew, but it is not even un- officially announced how many are unlawfully making it. Papers scattered over the road- ways make a sorry sight, yet one sees this every day. It looks bad enough in early springtime, but when the lawns -are green, scatter- éd paper makes the streets look far more untidy. People shouldvmake it a point to throw no paper on the roadways or in their yards, for the wind carries it long Gistances School. children should be Maught to be careful about throwing paper about. A good deal of the paper scen on streets appears to be from school books. Progressive Leader Raney thinks that one weakness of. Ontario's education system is the ab of the teaching of French in the com- mon schools, and the writer agrees with him. One cannot learn Eng- lish properly without having some knowledge of both French and Latin, on which our language is largely based. Leading men of the past generation recognized that they would have been better equipped had they been given the rudiments of French and Latin in the higher classes of the common schools. On- tario may come to it yet. The reports that two Brockville citizens are mentioned for the posi- tion of lieutenant-governor of ©n- tario recalls to us that Kingston gave the province two of its ablest governors in the late Sir Alexander Campbell and Sir George A. Kirk- It was the son of the former who two years ago left the Kingston fieneral Hospital a legacy that yiélded about $350,000. King- ston may well honor the memory of the Campbell family, St.»Mary"s Journal Argus: Canada exported more goods to the United States during the year 1925 than any other country in the world, ac- cording to a report of the U. 8. de- partment of commerce. 7 Local Esteem. Exchange: Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may, be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific. and cheering beams. The Golden Opportunity. Detroit Free Press: This is a'time of golden opportunity to put the ad- ministration of national affairs on as nearly a true, business basis as any public machinery can be put. 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