[HE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Sa ER suFublished Dan by WHIG 7 PUBLISHING TED, KINGSTON, ONT. Presiden SUPSCRIPTION RATES: (Daly Edition) ir, to Unitéd States ,...... $3.00 IF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: Dee. W. Thompson, 100 King y Torom to, Fs Calder, 22 St. John Powers, Inc. ers, Ine, 19 the Editor ure published over the actual name of the elreulation of The British Whig bY the Audit Bureau of _ r MR. MEIGHEN AND EARNS. : OLIFFE. The proposal to buy the beautiful Ditawa property, Barnscliffe, for ; official residence for the leader of the Conservative party, Is an ex- cellent one. This historic home 'could not possibly be put to better use. a Because of the close asspciation "for so many years of Sir John Mac-; : . 1498 members, at-the meeting, were all "donald with this city, Kingston has m peculiar interest in the proposal. Jeaders of our political parties fo deserving of the best that we give them. It is well kn Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen "de ed many tempting offers to ré- to his profession and give up 1 1ife, but he has refused them . Whether they agree with Mr. en or mot every fair-minded 5 and woman kiows that he is 3 to the service of his country of the ablest legal minds in the sminion, at great personal sacri- While other lawyers in Mr, y are making from n. hope the proposal fo install Barnscliffe is carried = out. hen deserves well of the tive party, and under the on of his charming wife, we sure that historic and beauti- . situated Earnsclitfe would "goon become noted for its and warm hearted hospi- POWER NEGOTIATED FOR. ng message was receiv- by The British Whig this morn- from Hon. W. F. Nickle, that the Hydro Com- had. closed negotiations for from the Gatineau, Que., nt. Some 230,000 horse will be created. With the Eastern Ontario can with nce 'make preparation for use for it will be reasonable { price and = sbundant In quality. overplus at the beginning can used in Central and Western tarlo. Itisa boon devoutly to be ktul for. . Charles Btewart, Minister of Interior, in the federal house, is y of the highest commenda- for giving an impetus, to the just negotiated for. In the he evinced a sympathetic in- 1 in. 8t. Lawrence development 'promised by June; to state it the engineering staff employ- submit and what the Gov- prepared to do. Wig le development on the St. Eastern Ontario' will have of power and will give opportunity for the new industries and s in the Ontario, Legislature at the. splendid news and an- | liquor trade, but he has changed his | viewpoint and is now a progressive | advocate of temperance. Recently | he helped in the passing of measures shortening the hours of sale of liquor | and closing saloons on Sunday. This has helped much in Ireland. Mr. | Elliott made the sane remark that a | country cannot be made dry by | legislation alone. Education is need- | ed and In Ulster temperance speak-.| ers are being developed. To help | further in the work the principles | of temperance will be part of the | curriculum of the schools. The coun- | try that Is going to do without booze i is the country that is going to make | the most progress in the world," was { Mr. Elliott's comment. He will en-| dorse prohibition for Ulster. Mr | Ellfott in addition to talking so | splendidly about the outlook for tem- | perance in Northern Ireland, also took time to assert that the one ob- ject of Ulstermen to-day is to be bound closer to the British Empire. Ulster, . he declared, is still suffering from war's aftermath. Two great Industries of the country are affected, shipbuilding and linen manufacture. There are few ships needed to-day while In the linen in- dustry France, where the franc Is depreciated, attracts the foreign buyer. "Britain 1s suffering to-day on account of her honesty," remark- ed Mr. Elliott. "She is the only na- tion in the world owing American money and paying it. In the end her integrity will stand her in good stead." en os ne -- LIBERALS' LIBERALITY For years endeavors have been made to have the portrait of the late Sir John Macdonald, in the Memor- tal Hall, examined and re-decorated. It has been chipping for some years due to a slight scorching recelved, as well as by the ravages of time. This year the Property Committee passed the appropriation for the work, and it was quite remarkable that the Liberals in politics. Mayor Angrove complimented them on their gener- ous action, as for forty years Sir John was the Conservative represen- tative of this city and a determined opponent of Liberal aggression, tn te---- BRING BACK LACROSSE. Endeavors are to be . made this year to put lacrosse, the Canadian national game, on the map again. It is a real sport, strenuous to be sure, but just the kind to put stamina into young men. Up to thirty years ago it was a stirring game in Kingston but as the leaders passed on the younger sets did not take to it and it gave place to baseball and tennis, less vigorous sports. Not for twenty years has lacrosse been prominent in Eastern Canada. The Canadian Amateur Lacrosse Association, with headquarters at Winnipeg, is now seeking to attract attention to the national game, which with hockey, another Cana- dian creation, is regarded as the best 'moral, physical and mental de- velopers known to the athletic world. Canadian boys have always been re- garded as finé specimens of physical lite and if this position is to be main- tained the athletic field must hold their interest and their participation: Lacrosse is worthy of a place In ath- etic activities and we commend it to the school boys. They will get healtn and satisfaction out of the lively sport. \ ------------ PASSED INTO DISCARD. The word "chaperone" appears to be obsolete; the personage too has disappeared from polite society. The chaperone that would please the boys and girls of to-day would be as use- ful as an extra tail for a cat, and the other kind wouldn't do at all. Time was when a chaperone was a chaperone in fact and a duenna in? effect. She made a job of it and was duly respected at house parties and camp parties. The girls rather lean- ed on her for guidance and the boys were most respectful and desired to stand in her good graces. Along toward the end of our high school period members of the young married set were looked upon with high favor in the role of chaperone. Oné may have the sneaking suspicion that the then daring young matron who now would be quite an old fogey indeed, was the factor most respon- gible in the early breakup of the chaperonage system. A little later the war came along and the whole thing Went to smash, It is believed that it is still practised in some | you want 0}, { night, | America are taxed $100'to $150 for pg EDITORIAL 1 NOTES. Slang phrases 4 are ze the ra) | of speech. Between pedestrians Bhd motorists | | pad manners mean accidents, court- | | esy 'means safety. Lord Inchcape says Britaln needs | a Mussolini to put his foot down on | expenditures. There are others. sip | William Toole, the pansy king, 1s dead, He added much color and | loveliness to .the gardens of the world. ; i No harm will be done. if a man takes. off his winter underwear at and. puts it on again next morning, i { The claim 1s made that in the United States but five per cent. of liquor smuggled in is seized. Apathy somewhere! Russians leaving that country for Soviet passports. Getting the last drop of blood out of them! It is now said that the shot fired at Mussolini was intended for the King of Italy. If so, this sets a new record for female marksmanship. It must be hard for a reformer to reflect that, if people took his ad- vice, everyone might some day be as | good as he is, comments the Toronto Telegram. : New refrigerating methods, used in Canada, can preserve a fish for six months or more, it is claimed, so that it will taste' as if it had just been caught. Girls whose skirts hang twelve inches or less from the ground will receive a badge fromk the Kiwanis Club of Chicago, now What does the Kingston Club offer. The Wives of Georgia have the ad- vantage over their husbands. "In that state they have the rjght to testify against husbands in court, but husbhnds cannot reciprocate. If the report from Ottawa, that Hon. Duncan Marshall, is to be ap- pointed to the vacant Senatorship fog Alberta, he will receive the hearty congratulations of his many friends both in the east and the west. Possibly Christianity applied would make the world warless, but world-wide application of Christian- ity is remote when the leading Chris- tian nation has two-thirds of its population unchurched. ---- A speaker at the Ontario Educa- tional Association meetings declareds that students no longer study during thelr school days and will not be able to study after leaving school. A poor outlook for ever getting any knowl- edge. The per capita consumption of "bakers' bread' in Canada was 77.34 pounds in 1924, as compared with 78.1 pounds in 1923," according to the Bureau of Statistics. Notwith- standing the increase, "mother," quotes the Toronto'Globe, seems to be doing a lot of baking still. Mr. Poole, of the United Farmers of Manitoba, has been telling the educational convention that "the aim of education ought to be to teach how to think rather than what. to think." We would go him one bet- ter, says the Winnipeg Free Press, and say the aim should be to teach how to think about what. What? The withdrawal of the township school board bill in the Ontario legislature and the battering it got from the rural trustees of the pro- vince at their convention, will focus attention on the matter and some re- form will be developed as a result of the agitation. The township unit will ultimafely prevail if force is not used, but rather co-Gperation, -- The Lord's Day Alliance is fo raise $25,000 in Toronto to be spent In having more rigid observance of Sun- day there. The secretary for the province states that pleasure-seckers must not be allowed to place their imprimatur on the Canadian Sab path, and say what the day shall be, but that the church, and it alone, must say what the Sabbath shall be. A Ontario minister of agriculture is of opinion tat a boy who guitted school at fourteen earned for the rest of his life only halt as much | LOOKING AROUND On one day in this week two mil-| | lionalres ended their lives with re-| volvers, because of ill-health and de- | pression. | so fine a thing after all. People with good health are better off in the long | run, A ratepayer draws attention Clarence street park and asks if the Being a millionaire is not | to - [parks committee intends to continue | to allow baseball and football to be | played 'there to the injury of the! flowers, shrubs and trees. " He thinks | games should be prohibited there, and also near flower beds in other city parks. It is for the parks com- mittes of the city council to decide. J General Manager H. C. Nickle fs doing everything possible to make the near-corner street car stops meet the. convenience of the people. The motormen have careful orders as to where to stop. It is hoped the pub- He will co-operate. < -- fovidently the people who have been dumping their garbage in the city park think this place is in need of "filler," But it is not, and the parks authorities would be obliged if the garbage was put in its pro- per place. Those are wonderful robins which return from the south to the C.E.R. gardens here each spring. Cats have been known to have travelled long distances to their old homes, but these robins have. gone the tabbies one better. Some birds get to know their owners as intimately as chil- dren know their parents, and it would appear that the C.P.R. garden- er is never forgotten by the red- breasts who have again returned to their home opposite the city build- ings. The city council can well afford 0 spend $250 in having the splendid oil portrait of Sir John A. Macdon- ald in Memorial Hall = retouched. Many @ city would give Kingston a big price for the immense portrait of the great Canadian statesm™, who represented Kingston so'long in the House of Commons. The civic collec- tion of oil portraits of our mayors is most unique, and quite a number of them are admirably done. It is to be hoped that the practice of each mayor presenting his portrait in oils to the city hall will be continued. Napanee has advanced another stage in golf, having purchased the ground it has been using, and in- tends erecting a club house. With two live clubs--Napanee on the west and Gananoque on the east--Kings- ton golfers are well supported. These golf clubs are great assets. po The departure of Provincial Con- stable Maclachlan is keenly felt in Kingston. "Mac" is one of Ontario's very best detectives, and the Lime- stone City would like to have had him anchored here. He is a big-good- natured Scotchmah, but a regular ferret when it comes to getting after wrong-doers. > -- We will not consider mavigation open in Kingston harbor until we see the Wolfe Islander sailing up to the Brock street wharf with our island friends aboard. But they will soon be coming over with their pro- duce to sell; and then when Capt. Carnegie sails out for Cape Vincent we will know that the spring has really arrived. po News and Views. Debt to the Tailor. Colgate Banter: Though clothes may not make the man, we know at least one student who owes a lot to his tailor. Taxing the Dinner Wagon. Montreal Gazette: Proposed tax on meals in Quebec that cost a dollar or more should be productive of a large revenue or a radical change in the habits of the people. As an incentive to plain living and high thinking, it may prove more effective than moralizing on the vir- tues of the simple life. Seemed a Generous Offer. Fergus News-Record: Our Scottish friend, William Low, passes this one to us: A Scot in Action was seen go- ing into the newspaper, office there, ¢arrying his suit over his arm. "What are you doing, Sandy?" asked his friend. 'Why, don't you see that sign there," replied Sandy, pointing to the name of the journal--'The Acton Free Press." The Gypsy Strain. Vancouver Province: But there is gypsy strain in ns all, The blood the nomad and wanderer tingles nr veins in this season of the vain the maxims of a home i . The Bank of Toronto is a bank of progressive - ideals which adheres to its original principle. Nothing is lost by being thoroughly sound and ~ _conservative--nothing is lost by treating each cus- tomer's problem as an individual one and enter- ing into it in a whole- "hearted fashion. FT add Wb IV Sm $6 naan, . SO fA Bisis Hl zeses sEzes id Fis as Si IEEE EEE i BRANCHES: KINGSTON---C, P. Borland, manager. LANSDOWNE--J. LYNDHURST--F. 8. McKercher, A. Maples. lucky time occurs every eiatyione | years, and although the- superstition is waning, there are still large num- bers of parents who won't allow their sons.to marry girls under this cloud. Protect Our Merchants, Montreal Star: Quite apart from the question of supporting our home industries by adequate protection, there is the very serious and much neglected question of supporting our home merchants. The smuggling on a large and small scale that has been going on for many years, connived at by some officials, is a direct blow be stopped. Our customs laws should be so drastic that smugglers, big and ties. Wit and Hamor No Junk Wanted. Agent--"By the way, there are gome old Roman remains at the south end of the estate." New Owner--"Are there--well you 'ave 'em cleared away before I take possession:" An Indignant Witness. "And now, sir," thundered coun- sel, "tell the court what you were do- ing in the interim." "1 never went there," retorted the witness indignantly. "I stayed in the drawing-room all the evening." The Proof. She--1 showed father the verses you sent me. He was pleased with them. : He--Indeed ! What did he say ? She--He said he was delighted to find that I wasn't going to marry a poet. . "Does ycur Wages?" "Oh, yes; he péddles balloons whenever there's a parade in town. What does your husband do?" "He sells smoked glasses during eclipses of the sun." A Bright Class. The teacher was conducting a "show-off" lesson before a school man work, Mrs to Canadian Interests; and it must | little, would be afraid of the penal-!jj floors, electricity and gas, gar- |i garden. Price $8,700. |i Brick dwelling, 8 rooms, elec- Hi tricity and gas,. furnace, good | location. Price $4,500. Stucco Dwelling, 8 rooms, electricity and gas, good garage [il for 8 cars. Price $4,500. Some excellent bargains in Farms, Money to loan on mortgages. Reliable Fire Insurance Com- panies. Phones 2780-w or 1797-J. T. J. Lockhart | Real Estate and Insurance Agent, 81 Brock St., Kingston, Ont. she labelled it: "Gooseberry jam, put up by Mrs. Mason.' « Johnple soon discovered the shelf on which the jars were placed, and having emptied one of them, he wrote on the bottom of the label: "Put down hy Johnnie Mason." Warning. Motor Cop (after hard chase)--- Why didn't you stop when I shouted back there? Driver (with only five bucks but presence of mind)--I though you said, "Good morning, Senator." Cop--Weli, you see, Senator, I wanted to warn you about driving fast through the next township. Quebec Viewpoint poco, La Patrie, 'while regretting the Peace' River election scandal con- tends that elections generally have been more free from irregularities of late years. Alberta, and which were brought to light during the cage pleaded at Ed- monton before Judge Walsh, have had for result the condemnation of deputy returning office Robb, to five years in the penitentiary. Judge Walsh, in rendering judgment, de- clares that never in the history of try has there been such an to deprive electors of their He added that the £ i The KINGSTON CLEANERS AND DYERS Clean anything that ean be cleaned C. COE & P. BARRETT Office: 86 Arch Street. 'Phone 1225w Call and deliver. PIANO TUNING Plano Tuning, Repairing and Player Piano Adjusting. Norman H. Butcher, 27 Pine Street. 'PHONE 134. THE NATIONAL CLEAN- ERS AND DYERS Sanitary Steam Pressing and Steam Cleaning. Also French Dry Cleaning. Repairs and aiterations. Corner Bagot and William Streets Phone 21606, J. F, WALKER, Prop. ge Dr. Waugh DENTIST 106 Wellington St. Phone 258. Next Saturday, 17th, will be 'Heinz Day" in our store. We invite you to come and try the delicious samples that will be served. A representa tive of H. J. Heinz Company will be in charge. Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 990. McCALLUM in the world of MEMORIALS isa MARK of DISTINCTION | % QUALITY, roe GB. fa, - = 3