2 . part In the last Federal ments it is just " they should have equal ' that they are taking a real interest _ Dritish Whig wishes the Kingston ~ Liberal Women's Association con- © Why? Aro there extenuating circum- * who serves half his sentence to go © free? If so will it have a tendency * to reduce crime? ior Ontario. With further ex- . ce gained in this 'way, many || Published Daily THE BRITISH WHIG Y PUBLISHING CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. W, RUPERT DAVIES TELEPHONES Mice rowan REPRESENTATIVES: . Thompson, 100 Ki ses west, Teronte. ne. elder, 22 Su John foc Yi m-Powers, Inc, or Avenue. 3 191 South La Salle Street. sed Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual mame of the The spBlttion at me British 1s suthehiicateq ry odit Burea A SPLENDID ORGANIZATION. The Kingston Liberal Women's Association is to be congratulated upon the splendid executive which :3 has elected for the ensuing year. This organization took a very active campajgn and did a lot of valuable work. Under the able guidance of Mrs. Diack we feel sure that this year will be ona of useful activity. Active participation in politics by women is still comparatively - new, but since they have been granted the franchise there has been a wide- spread movement along this line. As the women of the land are all vitally affected by the action of qur Parlla- and proper that franchise privileges with men, and the fact in political affairs is bound to_ be beneficial in very many ways. The tinued success and. prosperity. WHY THE PAROLE? eur was Settell ison ith all dues deference to 'Parole Board, the Minister a Justice, or whoever was responsible, should the general public not be taken into confidence to a greater extent? Clarenca Settell was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for siealing. He has served half his senfence, and is allowed to go free? stances? If so what? Is every man . There are many people who wonder just how these paroles are srranged, apd'the reason for so. any of them. It-adds to the duties our pojico forces and it is doubt- @nl if, in many instances, much last- ag gucd results, BOYS' TRAINING E The Ontario Goyernment has bought Vimy Ridge Farm, Britain from time to time by the Ontario Immigration . Department, "It is a plan which should work oiit well in the interest of the faculty of children during the per- fod 6f their education.' To his view the memory of the child was con- sidered the essential ming the mind as full as possible with facts without concern whether § they were assimilated. The stimula. tion of "the, reasoning fdcully--en- couraging pupils to think for them- selves--is not. so much in evidence, Judicious use of the child's imagipa- tion is rarer still. It is seldom necessary to stimu- late the juvenile imagination. It is the mental faculty which first mani- fests itself, is strong and active in every normal child, and fades with the growing years. What is desir- able is to direct the imagination into healthy channels and make it serve useful and noble ends. Left without direction fipwill find its own channels, and too often they are vicious and dangerous ones. Of one . thing we may be sure that the child imagination will not be sluggish and idle, but will be active 'and busy. AMERICA'S GIFTS TO RELIGION. Last year the people of tlie Unit- ed "Slates gave $648,000,000 to maintain religion at home and abroad. This figure represents the 'roligious benefactions of Catholic, Jew and Protestant ecclesiastical organizations. For example, twenty-five Protest- ant demominations gave, in 1925, the sum of $88,845,000 to benevo- lences, including missions of all kinds; $332,658,000 . to congrega- tional expenses, and enough miscel- laneous gifts to bring the total to $451,000,000, The contributions of the Jews is estimated at $18,600,000, The Catholics gave $168,000,000, Other bodies, not referred to above, gave $10,000,000. The total of gifts to Christian en- torprises does not include money given for education and charities. The Jewish benefactions do not in- ¢lude the moneys raised for the re- storation of Palestine. These impressive figures are gathered and published by the Unit- ed States Stewardship Couneil re- presentiig the twenty-five Protestant churches referred to above. This report shows that among Protest- ants the Methodists are by far the 'argest givers, with the Baptists text. Nevertheless, a study of com- parative membership and gifts proves that there is not a great per capita disparity among any pf thede religionista. EVIDENCES OF SENTIMENT. I---- y President Coolidge is generally re- garded as a silent man without any sentiment but this is disproved by wei Ne 'fact that he has had new head- stones placed at the graves of his | great-grandparen at-gre ts in a little ceme- tery at Hampden, Wisconsin. The oldest daughter of Israel Brewer, married Glaucia Coolidge, father of Colonel Jolin Coolidge and grand- father of President Coolidge. The great-grandfather died the year after Calvin was born and the great- grandmother lived until Coolidge was fourteen. Some have sought to make out that the president has mo sentiment in his soul, - When a man as busy as the president of the United States takes the time to look up the graves of his great-grandparents, and <0 write numerous letters to town clerks in Vermont to verify records, he has sentiment. The stones over the graves of his great-grandparents in Wisconsin had become so weath- erbeaten that it was impossible to tell whether the middle initial was C. or G. The president wrote num- erous letters to the registrars snd ear ; _ Guelph, for the training of boys for town clerks of Vermant to get the ~ farming who are to be brought out ~ from Great exaet initial and was not satisfied until he had determined that it was There is something about a Ver. montér that gives him pride in his ancestry. They are not ancestor , [worshippers as the Chinese are, but they seem to have a reverent feel- ing for those who preceded them, and Coolidge is no different than any other. It was simply natural for him to do this. LIVING WITHOUT AIR. The mild weather frequently ob- served 'at this time of year occa- thing, cram- shan apples {advisable known to recover" after ice has formed in their blood. ¥; / AN AUDACIOUS REFORM. Premier Mussol{n} of Italy, once al Socialist, has persuaded the Italian | Senate to adopt, by an overwhelm- | ing majority, 'the most courageous, | most audacious, most radical, most | revolutionary reform yet proposed | by the Fascist Government in its forty months of office" --a bill which | outlaws strikes and lockouts, which | establishes a special labor magis- tracy and makes arbitration compul-| sory. - | EDITORIAL NOTES. A Highland Scot and a. locomotive | are about the only things that wear | a real skirt nowadays. | Hairdressers are out with the warning that a race of short-haired women means a race of bearded wo- men. Eighty thousand tons of candy were eaten in Canada last year, and some of us only saw it in the shop windows. A /plan- worth trying is to go to churé¢h before taking am automo- bile ride. The roads will seem much smoother. March lives up to any reputation it may have had for roughness in times past. Search your old diaries for proof. : Chinamen are A8w smoking cigar- ettes and hence there is a call for Chinese manufacturers to start mak- ing matches which has never been a native industry. Walter Page; United Stites am- bassador to Great Britain, expressed the view that the only thing that has the respeét of the nations is Britain's naval power. Make a will if you own any pro- perty. Make your meaning clear and avoid trouble and litigation. This will save the estate from being eaten up in costs, Mussolini decides that there shall be no general election in Italy until 1929, and when that year arrives he is as likely as not to decide that Italy can get along pretty well with- out any elections at all. 7 -- During the past fiscal year the Ferguson government spent a total of 129 million dollars under all heads, and there is a deficit of over half a million dollars. The tax- payer paid the big costs, and not without some grudging. " Very ungaliant university profes-! sor says that men are more beduti- ful than women. Most women in his opinion are lopsided and clumsy. Now girls, says the Ottawa Journal, just imagine a near-sighted book worm holding an opinion like that! . University debaters®declare that Agnes Macphail is a greater force tor good than Mary Pickford. That's a real victory for the practical side of affairs against art, still there are doubts if Agnes would draw as big a crowd as Mary would anywhere. The Hamilton Herald approves the reduction of cabinet portfolios. The ministry has been too large. By the rearrangement the work can be done not less efficiently than it was done before, and the cost of main- taining superfluous departments and paying the salaries of unnecessary ministers will be saved. It is claimed that more 'oranges are consumed in On- tarlo, although the oranges must be imported from a long distance while the apples grow all around us, "Twas ever thus. We are always looking afar off for the good things of life, and missing, perhaps, the better things that are within our reach. The Manitoba Free Press in dis- cussing recent cases before the Privy Council, declares that it is for the preservation of good relations between Canada and Great Britain to re-define the legal relationship betweeh these two Brit- ish countries bringing the law into stri¢t conformity with the condition of equality which actually exists. a -- * How would it do, instead of mak- ing 'the change to rural township school boards, in wholesale manner, to experiment on a few school sec- solid blocks of ice; frogs have deem | {men who will cast have done more in thé direction granting speaking minority of the province ? Would he have accorded them full liberty * Will his successor main- tain the same apparently benevolent attitude ? assure national survival. | . - Quebec Viewpoint 4 Heari Bourassa, discussing the po- litical situation at Ottawa, writés in Le Devoir: q "The . Liberal-Progressive co-op- eration is only temporary. It is the {only co-operation possible at the present time, but how precarious it {ist Will it lead to a definite fusion ? There are politicians who desire that fusion #34 they will strive to {their utmost to bring it about. In {the general interest it is to be hoped that their efforts will not succeed. {What this country needs is not a re- {turn to the old worn-out formulas {of the old parties, not the sterile | antagonism of the bines and the rouges, but the adoption of a vig- orous national policy which will be {calculated to rally together the san- est elements of all the parties and bring into public activity the best aside the mis- {chievous unreality of present dis- putés. Is the new orientation pos- sible at the present time ? In Pfr- Hament, no; outside, maybe. There it will exact strong personalities, a well 'constituted. organization, and powerful co-ordination. There is no sign of this on the horizon to-day. All the same, there can be no halt in presenting that objective as the only one really desirable." Le Droit discusses school grevances in Saskatchewan. "The Government of Saskatchewan has no more right than that of On- tario or of Manitoba to substitute itself for the parents in the matter |: of education, And if it does so the least that can be demanded of it is that the Government shall consider | the school in the light of a prolonga- | tion of the family, and consequently must respect the mother tongue of the children and make their language | the base of the whole primary course If Mr. Duhning had remained Prime Minister of Saskatchewan would he of the French- Justice to It will be better to ap- prehend the wors{ than hope too | much. That is why our compatriots | of Saskatchewan have created or- | Sm ganizations of defence and protection the chief purpose watch over the education of of children, ahd in this way work to They pre- fer in this work to count on them- selves rather tian discount the good- will. of public men, who, notwith- standing their persomal convictions i and their political prestige, allow a ||} state of things to continue which is absolutely unjust." News and Views. Flying Hamilton Hera fiying nort¥, und' 80 steering in the same direction, bound for Red Lake. . ---- Walnut, King of Woods, Lumber Trade Journal: Walnut appears to be the king in commer- |i cial hardwood lumber, measured by |i cost standards. This aristocrat is the |} only species of wood used generally {Ji for lumber that costs 'more than at any other time in its history. All is Vanity. Boston Transeript: dressers, in convention in New York, are told that women spent $390, |i 600,000 last year in beauty parlors. If that is so, it would seem that a {|i great deal of beauty must have van- ished with the vanishing cream. Sap and Shoot. Detroit Free Press:Members of || the Botany Faculty of the University of California announce, after ex- periments, that "alcohfl has much || the same effect on flowers as on hu- mans." But it never makes a flower draw its pistil, does it? Civilized Blacks, E. W. Howe's Monthly: In Miami, Florida, where I am spending the winter, 1 talked with a welfare officer. He says in the South there is no such thing as a negro child problem; that when negro children are orphaned or dependent, they are absorbed into the population; the others take care of them. Next time you feel like abusing the blacks, re- wemper this. Music As a Cure for Nines. Chesley Enterprise: A young man in this town told us the other day that when at @ critical stage in au attack of pneumonia he took a turn for the better when his medical attendant who wag skilful with the violin, played a soul-refréshing air that made him want to live to enjoy more of the music of life. There {It is quite probable at with the Suit ...... Hat . . Shirt . Wily geese are || lls are al- {| Master hair | niinenee of mind ovai matter. ma sic ean do "soothe Hose . . . Underwear .. Tie . Collar . Top Coat you a very good idea of h . $22.50 2.75 1.95 50 1.50 33 25 $29.80 .$18.00 $47.80!' THE SUIT AND OVERCOAT STORE DRESS WELL AND SUCCEED Young Man--Here's a Guaranteed Investment for you The Young Fellow who is practical and sensible, wants to figure out his clothes investment as he would consider buying stocks or bonds. Wild Cats" in clothes are just as much a losing proposition as a "blue sky" venture. These three complete Spring outfits will givey 10W you can invest. either $35 4 or $50 or $65, which es You an est or 129.80 138.50 47.70 Sat... 4.75/H Suit .. ..$27.50 Hat .. Shirt .. .. Hose ....... Tie... ... Underwear .. Collar .. 2.50 .50 1.00 2.00 25 $38.50 Top Coat ...$25.00 Shirt ... Tie .. Fe Underwear .. Collar .... Hose . . Top Coat . . rT $63.50! Ww $35.00 5.00 2.95 1.00 2508 _ 1100. $47.70 . $27.50 $75.20 i at..... which is to [lll the [ll - W. F. GOURDIER 78-80 BROCK STREET, THERHOMERRgS si ior reading and accurate, } with mercury or spirit columa. Bath Thermometers in wood- en protectors----something that ought to be in every hou where there is a baby. Clinical Thermometers = these are not much use unless absolutely accurate. We carry only guaranteed lines, Dairy Thermometers for the J butter and cheese maker. | Veterinary Thermometers § ' metal protectors. DR. CHOWN DRUG STORE 'PHONE 343. ° 185 PRINCESS STREET EGG and STOVE AMERICAN ANTHRACITE ON HAND. Chestnut Coal enroute. Split Pea suitable for Spencer Furnace or to mix with Coke. the west is increasing and becoming more diversified, Settlement will in- crease in spite of the difficulties and the slowness of influx during recent years. And all these factors should make it possible for the Na- tional Railways to steadily improve their position. Grand Jury Oriticizes The Jail at Brockville. _ Brockville, March 22 -- Protest against the condition of the Leeds and Grenville court house here in that "no fire protection of any kind is provided" and that it be "thor- ougly cleaned," was contained in a Grand Jury presentment made at the SOWARDS COAL CO. TELEPHONE 155 UPTOWN OFFICE: McGALL'S CIGAR STORE. "Phone 811. A Digest of the BEST in WIT By Courtesy of ZIFFS MAGAZINE | Buy Heat A quart of whole Milk a little over two pounds and con tains 680 calories; warmth for the kiddies this cold weather, costs about 12 cents. Two pounds of Scranton high as 7,500 calories: warmth for the entire family this: cold weather. And it costs only cent and three-fifths! -- Not Just Coal and Save Your Me A Crawfor 'PHONE 0. THE HOME oF GoD co