BRITISH WHIG 98RD YEAR. i | | - 1 : Published Daily by tug BRITISH WHIG PUSLISHING » LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. W. RUPERT DAVIES SUPSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) | Ome year, in city $7.50 © Ome year, by mail to rural offices, $2.50 One Fear, to United States $3.00 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, NTO r. Thompuon, 100 King Lo tirect West, Toronto. ~~ MONTREAL--F., Calder, 23 St John a Street, Montreal, NEW YORK-Ingraham-Powers, lac, GOTngrabam cs » ugraham-FPowers, Ine, 1 South Lu Salle Street, Letters to the Kditor are published S8ly over ihe mctual mame of the writer. i, of The British Whig ¥ the Audit Bureau of _ The etrculation authenticated b intions. Cu Tr THE CANADIAN FORESTS. Rol ¢ Canada 1s a gross offender in the matter of forest depletion,. We are selling our stocks at a very fast rate, Binety per cent. of the soft woods Ported 'Into the United States are # from Canadian forest, We also sup- ply seven per cent. of Britain's re- Quirements. There is alarm in Brit- sin over our short-sightedness. The London Times remarks that the re- sult will become apparent in future Years, when there will not be enough timber to go round ana the timber- - Importing countries of the Empire Will look to Canada in vain. Cana- @lan forests, it economically managed and Protected against fire, could keep the whole British Empire sup- With softwoods. As things are, the accumulated growt being dissipated, and continuance Of the excessive drain on the Domin- | 8 resources will bring about the arance of all accessible stands virgin softwood from Canada with- ® twenty-five years. In Conmection with the Save-the- Forest week, . to be observed this 1 mth, it Is of interest to note that ~Bational campaign for the con- 3 of one of the most valuable Tesources of the Dominion 14 Suarded their offspring, * part of an Empire-wide move- in the same direction. The object of the Canadian Forest is to arouse the publie to the from fire, a danger which, to / 8 extent, is preventable. This #2 the principal cause of loss, and it YOry necessary . that the popular ind should be duly impressed with gravity of the situation. Year by year campers and those who work in wooded areas, through Ssness and ignorance, are re- msible for enormous damage, re- ting in heavy financial loss to the mtry and in the destruction of Which cannot be replaced, un- ithe most favorable conditions, many years have elapsed. But the fire menace could be entirely iminated, there stiff remains the ction from insect pests and the 1 export of Y¥imber in an un- factured state. "At a meeting of the Empire For. Association held iin the Guild- ll, London, England, last month Prince of Wales, who presided, pke of the great {mprovement had come about in the methods forest protection throughout the pire, the Great War having de- ited the supreme value of an 'which, in the past, had been led as inexhaustible, and there- fe extravagantly dealt with. . "I be. it 1s mot too much to say," de- d the Prince, "that the nations British Empire are now lead. World in the effort to ensure ® shortage fn this essential > Royal Highness regarded it as ** that only 13 per cent. timber imported into the Unit- Kingdom * came from Empire y f= | h of centuries | countries, it can. only be. done through increased conservation and reforestation measures. Let these things sink in! TALK OF A NEW CALENDAR, Calendar reform is in the eir and {a committee of the League of Na- {tions 1s considering the Innovation. | The suggestion is to have thirteen {months of twenty-eight days each. | People are unable to rid themselves | of 'the superstition that for all prac- | Ucal purposes Easter is to be regard- i ed as the first day of spring, and that jonce it has arrived the winter is {over. In reality | March 21st, according to the calen- dar. This is not e moveable date {like Baster, which in some years is much earlier than fn others. It fell on April 4th this year and consider- ably later last year. Under the new calendar Baster would be a fixed date. The last thirteen days of the pre- sent month of June, it 4s proposed, would be combined with the first fif- teen days of July to make the new month, which is to be called "Sol" because the sun passes its summer solstice, denoting the longest day, on what is now June 21st, and would be on the new calendar Sol 4. This plan necessitates a 'Leap Year," or "Year Day," such as 1s observed at the present time. A conservative English manufac- turing company has estimated that by a new twenty-eight day month ap proximately, $21.43 an employee would be released -for business ex- pansion or investment during one month. Manufacturers, it is believ- ed, would benefit quite generally [trom the release of the two and one- In if d § now paid and the { ha ays' wages two and one-half days' more margin | of capital. Retallers, too, are sup- ! posed to -benefit from the regular { payment of accounts, the more even | circulation of money, the proportion- | ate reduction of bad debts, the re- | gularity of expenditures and the ! practicability of balancing twenty- | eight-day accounts. The worker's | yearly wage will be distributed in {even amounts and his expenses will | also occur evenly. The worker will | also benefit from the general cash re- (lease and the more even circulation of money. | FALLEN ON EVIL DAYS According to a recent report of the Children's Aid Society of New York, [50 per cent of the crime in that city is committed by persons under 22 years of age. Manifestly there is something wrong. It may be, and we think so, the home and the par- ents have not been all they should be. The parents have not safe- have not controlled their waywardness and put into effective service the rod and the shingle. Those versed in psy- chology insist, that adequate punish- ment when needed is the most reli- able deterrent and corrective of crime. It there were more of it there would be fewer criminals, eith- er over or under the age of twenty- two and tHe juvenile courts would be deserted. Softness with and wheefling of children is predominant | these' days; dictation and disregard | of parental authority prevails, and so long as these conditions obtain { there will be an abundant crop of criminals and idlers, both kinds preying on the public for generous support through thievery and ban- ditry. { CONQUERING PNEUMONIA. That pneumonia will some day be as rare and little feared as yellow fever or the plague is the promise of Dr. Rufus Cole of the Hospital of the Rockfeller Institute of Medi- cal Research. Pneumonia is such a very excited about it. Perhaps it's Just as well because fright never helped overcome an enemy, The death toll from pneumonia in New York annually is greater than from any other disease, even tuberculosis. Formerly, 'it was thought that pneumonia kiHed only the old and infirm, infants and wedklings. Now we koow that the greatest number of those whu die of pneumonia are in the prime of lite. The cause of the disease has been known for & long time. Many other infectious diseases have been made to disap- pear, or at least to become unimpor- tant, as soon as the cause was dis. covered. Is it mot possible to find means for controlling pneumonia? 13 undertake the study of the i Already many new facts about it have been Neglect of in spring begins on | common disease that we do not get | ¥ Now that the marble season is om, | even the children are rolling their own. The man who paid his gasoline { bill is sure he knows what makes the [ wheels go round. | One-half of the world certainly "does not know how the other half lives in house-cleaning time. | Edison at seventy-nine | can't stop working, and a lot of | young fellows regard this as an aw- | ful warning. says he A process has been discovered for securing drugs from old boots. The next move will be to restore spirifs from old bottles! Benvenuto Cellini wrote about blockheads 400 years ago. The world doesn't seem to have gone back even if it hasn't progressed. At one stage of last year's Arctic | expedition the members could hear jazz music broadcast from London. Then they pushed on farther north. Alberta leads all the provinces in the production of oii; "coal and gas, --not hot air or anything of that sort, Lord Beaverbrook has decided to offer twenty-five travelling scholar- ships to high school teachers of New Brunswick as an experiment, It will be a sure success. If the children are real noisy just | when you are trying to catch the name of the station broadcasting on the radio, then you can be convinced they are normal. Science, we are told, can now turn wheels by means of music. Day | may Be near at hand When old fid- dlers will solte the problem of per- petual motion. Now comeg Dr. E. C- Hillis, of the University of California, and says that slang is cursing. ~ From his study of languages Hillis concludes that one had just as well say "dam" as "dang." Ar er, The United States tariff commis- sion is having hard sleding these days. The Congressmen and Presi- dent Collidge think it has served its day. The political tariff-is to thelr thinking the best yet... The London editor of the Glasgow Herald has discovered a tigled Cana- dian in the metropolis who confesses that the chief effect of his title is to cause his hotel bills to be larger than they might be if he were plain mis ter. : ---- The newspapers of today offer op- portunities for a knowledge of civie and world affairs as yet totally unex- plored by the average' High school girl was a remark made by Mrs, Alexander, North Toronto, at a fune- tion there last week. . Just why our spring has been so late is something that the layman will not attempt to answer and there is a difference of opinion among the scientists. All we know is that it has been late and the weather has not only been disagreeable but it has been very monotonous, To learn to read with enjoyment, to be able to express themselves clearly and correctly in writing and to be at home with the basic rules of arithmetic should be the ideal on which elementary education should be concentrated, is the opinion of the Montreal Star. Secondary education can take care of itself. The Financial Post, Toronto, not too friendly to the "Liberal party, said a few days ago: "The Conserva- tive leaders would be making no mis- take ir'they recognized Mr. Mal. colm's appointment as advantageous to Canada, at this period of expand- Ing business, and were to allow his election by acclamation." In the last analysis the condition of general business the nation over, writes a New York economist, will depend on the out turn of the crops and the prices the farmers receive for thelr products this year. Good crops and good prices will mean a continuation and amplification of the excellent trade and the prosper- ity of recent years. Jesse L. Lasky, Aloiph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer and Carl Laemmle are the "big-boys™ of the motion ple- ture game. Bach Is worth more than a half dozen million dollars. Only a few years ago each was an obscure cog: Lasky was a vaudeville actor; Zukor, a clothing salesman; Mayor, a Maine lumberjack, and Laemmle a music dealer in New York's Tin Pan Alley. and when we say gas we mean gas | | | t Qutlook. Milwaukee Journal: Husband's can't understand why wife | has his coming home in the evening | to look forward to. { Timely. St. Catharines Standard: That was a timely reference Right | George P. Graham made to church { women about smuggling when he told them they would probably kick { their husbands if they brought home | something on the hip, but not to de {it with a shoe that had been smug- | gled. | Big City Fools. Detroit Free Press: Not all the small-town stuff is pulled in small towns. More than 1,200 telephone calls were reeeived at police head- quarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., from persons 'who had been told, April 1st, that they had been asked to call the number and ask for "Mr. Copper." Gentle Hint To Wives. Fergus News-Record: Lest some readers of this page should omit it, we draw their attention to this bir of wisdom from the Roxborough's Corners correspondent this week: | "Should your husband object to the price of your Raster bonnet, just casually remihd him of the time he | bid $8.35 for the privilege of eat- ing your box lunch at the church social." The Force of Justice. Minneapolis Journal: Justice, armed. with sure and sufficient | penalties, and supported by the power of the state and the sentiment of 'society, can keep order, repreas crime, punish criminals. It can deal jv robbers, murders, anarchists, protect homes, property, persons, [ lives. In all history, justice, so au- | thorized and so supported has never failed. And justice alone can do these things, To Come Back To Its Own. Belleville Ontario: The Bay of Quinte is all too little in use by the people of these parts and by tour- ists. Visitors deem it one of the most picturesque bodies of water to be | met on their travels and feel an ir- | resistible impulse to return at the | earliest opportunity. The appeal to the native-orn should be even greater for every cove and every bar should tell its story. The bay used to play a larger part in the life of the people than it has been doing but sooner or later it will come back into its own. Give and Take. J. L. Garvin, in the London Ob- server: The very life of this country depends on two things--the de- liberate adoption .by employers in this country of a policy of high wages; and the intelligent under- standing on the part of the men that every mechanical aid to efficlency | must be used to the utmost, that the organization of cheaper production on'American lines must be accepted, and that restrictions on individual output must be swept away. Mens } Sir John and the i John Collinses Pte 4 (London Free ) Browsing through London Public Library lately I came across a history of Sir John A. Macdonald, written by John Collins, in the "80". It was this history which was the oé- casion for a famous parliamentary bon mot by Sir Richard Cartwright, There was a debate in the Commons in regard to some payments to Mr. Collins. Sir Richard seized upon the occasion to make a thrust at Sir John A. Referring to the history of Mr. Collins, he remarked: "The work is. couched in chaste and elegant langnage, and no doubt it will be very satisfactory to the honorable gentleman's friends, Dbe- cause I observe from it that in all the acts of the honorable gentle- man's career which evil-minded per- sons have misinterpreted he. has been actuated by the "purest and most patriotic motives and has even sometimes allowed his reputation. to be tarnished for the genéral welfare of the country. It is a happy assoc- {ation of ideas and what a lamented friend of mine called the eternal fitness of things, that a gentleman who in his lite has done justice to so many Sohn Collinses should at least find a John Collins to do jus- tice to him." No man enjoyed the joke on him- self more than Sir John A. ---------------- TORONTO VIEW OF BUDGET Globe: The budget of Hon. Mr. Robb will go down in history as one of the most encouraging which Par- llament has ever been called upon to consider. It has features appeal- ing to all parts of Canada and to town and country. It should mark Press the of the nation. Mail and Empire: The increasing of the exemption for married people g ever | | complains about anything when she | Hon, | BOOKS A Man's Worth, by Sidney Arthur: | Hunter-Rose Co., Toronto. Price | $2. "A Maa's Worth" love story which open London, Bog. As aimless wanderings: dilly Circus where ple had collected. Interest was a JAittle girl playing a violin. She played old English love songs and her interpreta.ica showed remarkable talent for one so young. | An accident happened to the girl and the violin bridge was broken. The! Sympathy of the boy was aroused and | he offered to lend money to buy an- other bridge. A one 4 was secured is a charming | 8 in the city of mall bay whose | led him to Pica. | & number of peo- Their object of and the two ent to Trafalgar are. Here Dolly Cayley played and George Norton collected the money. In the Autumn of 1913 the' Scene had changed to Canada, a third year science student at one of our Ontario universities had just regis- tered. Being short of money he Worked as walter in a restaurant. During the term a concert was ad- vertised and Dolly Cayley, then a young woman of about twenty-one was the artist. Norton also worked on the river drive. , Here he met Suzanne who had spent most of her life in the north country, the adopt- ed daughter of Le Blane. Suzanne married but her 'husband deserted her, and she afterwards conducted a cook-house for the prospectors. Suz- anne had no friends among the wo- men, but the prospectors protected and patronized Suzanne's eating- house. Suzanne had kept the name of the husband (Andrews), who had deserted her, a secret, but she finally came to the city bringing her little Son with her. She found George Nor- ton, who befriended her. Dolly Cay- leys approaching marriage had been announced in the paper and Suzanne had read it, and thought the man was her husband. Norton grasped the situation and remembered Andrews had gone north one summer on a survey. He then was the man whom Suzanne would not name. Norton in- formed the chief of police, and the wedding ceremony was interrupted, Dolly asked Andrews the cause, to which he replied he did hot know. Chief Gorman told Dolly there were some facts she would have to clear up before the marriage could pro- ceed. Van Bruen, another student, conceived the idea of a play to bring Suzanne's husband to time. Suzanne was to play the leading part. The staging and last rehearsal were care fully gone . over, and now all was ready. Spasms of dread filled Suz- anne's heart, for she knew the box where he would be/%with Dolly, The | § ooo: the Pacific, the girl mysterious- play opened, when suddenly Andrews face darkened and he swore under his breath. Dolly'¥Wyes followed his Corporation Bond List A new List, just issued, has been prepared to assist investors to obtain higher income with adequate security. It describes the securities of a number of Canadian public utility, power, pulp and paper, and other corporations This List should make especial appeal to corporatign bond buyers Copy gladly furnished upon request. 3 King Street West, Toronto Telephone: Elgin 4321 Wood » Gundy & Company Limited ley, an attempted murder, himsel? the rescuer, a dingy back room in a tenement, some manuscripts of a pirate; and the possession of these reliques of old Johnson becomes as absorbing in this yarn as that of the hankie in Little White Hag. Now you have it, now not. In the exchange of ownerships the reader encounters bludgeons, . iron bars, sixshooters, rat-haunted cellars, life and deatt scrimmages and motor hurly-burlies in the open streets, and races for the shipside with casual phantom contacts with the beauty in the case, whose name is Isabel Jones, The treasure is buried in the Galapagos group. Two rival parties, one of roughnecks, the other of nice people and' heroes, fight and bluster half across the world to get it first. The race that began with murders in Frisco culminates in a still more ex: iting hippodrome of schooners :.c- ly in tow with the bad eggs, who are much the more interesting lot be- cause they act more like bloody ad- venturers. Lang, being chief hero, falls in love with the girl, who is the real treasure. She saves him twice, His friend Kerr always bobs up serenely in emergencies. The | gang on the Hawk are mainly bad | Cockneys, niggers and . half Spau- fards. The rowdlies arrive first at the treasure island; the heroes hot | in their wake; more mixups half al world away from the police that one | party talks so glibly about; treasure hard to find; girl becomes more ur- gent than gold; a terrific storm prances up; the Hawk has to get to sea to fight it; the hero returns to the girl and her half-murdered un- cle on the sand; the treasure comes to light under a blowdown palm; spades and picks, and hysteria; gold, doubloons, jewels, crucifixes, mad- onnas--all that, Happy ever after. A book that almost anybody would en- joy reading. Quebec Viewpoint gaze. lumber camp and 'Suzanne Le Blane the leading lady. Dolly looked at Andrews and said: "Oh! I know, 1 know it all." The curtain rose on the third act and Andrews watched his hidden past. The scene was two weeks later; if was late at night and Suzanne was alone on the stage. Her eyes were resting on the box in which Andrews sat. Suzanme walked across the stage moaning "he has been gone 15 days and his face has never left my sight." Andrews with one cry of anguish fled from the box and for days was missing from his fami- Har haunts. In 1915 Andrews went back to the north country and be- came a camp-watcher. Once again 4 canoe passed upward on the Stur- geon River, it contained Suzanne and Pete her friend: . They called at An- drews' camp and asked for shelter for the night. Pete left Suzanne and The scene was a northern!) Andrews alone and after some con- versation the woman threw back her veil and said: 'Look! I am Suz anne!" Norton enlisted in the great war. He married Dolly and they went overseas together. Norton was mortally wounded. The story is a very interesting ome and holds the attention of the reader from start to finish, THE HIGH ADVENTURE, by Jet. fery Farnol. Ryerson Press, Tor onto, $2.00. There 1s a title that takes your eye. There is a suggestion of ideal ism, of something that Toes not deal wholly with bank accounts and bills. It paints a romance of the olden days. Mistakenly you fancy that in those 'olden days" money was a sec- ondary matter. I daresay it was a primary matter. But somehow Jet- fery Farnol makes his reader imag- ine that life was just one gallant knight after another (no pun in- tended) with trusty ste¥ds and fair maidens needing rescue, and the glamour of two hundred 8 ears ago making all things plausible. Thus as you read yon lose yourself in a cen- A new advance in the economic life]! Le Devoir emphasizes the fact that uttérances such as those of Sire John Adams make it more diftl- cult for the two races in this coun- try to understand one another. "Nobody knows at present on what authority Sir John Adams speaks as a Hnguist, but if he was expressing only his opinion as an outsider he gave a pitiful exhibition of want of knowledge and tact to those people present who had al- ready spoken with our people. As Senator Belcourt remarked, observa- tions such as those of Sir John Adams only &dd to the difficulties of the two races in striving to under- stand one another and agree * to- gether. The Parisian French so dear to Sir John Adams exists only at! Toronto and in places where they Trans-Atlantie, Trans-Pacific, Bermuda, West Indies, M 3 as. Round the World Steamship es. i To Detect Cancer | (Toronto Mad] and Empire The study of cancer an the search for a specific remedy for can- cer, fortunately, goes steadily on but, to the present, has not res in the discovery of a cure that NX been accepted by the medical pro- fession as likely to meet all re- quirements. In the meantime, an eminent British surgeon has as. serted that cancer can be eradicat- ed by surgical methods if it is discoy- ered at an early enough stage of its growth. The conditional clause is an important one. If the inventi n of the anonymous scientist, § of whom Dr. H. McCormick Mitellhil senior medical officer of the Liv, pool Cancer Hospital has spoki meets that condition it should be, indeed, a useful one. According to Dr. Mitchell "the early detection of cancer is one of the vital "things in the elimination of "the disease." In telling of the new discovery he said: --""I believe we are on the eve of i great discovery in cancer research that- will bring comfort to many \ J thousands of anxious hearts," Dr, Mitchell % reported to have sai "lI bave been investigating the in vention e¢f an eminent scientist whose name I am not at the moment entitled to give. 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PATRICK 149 Sydenham Street, 'Phone 20567. anything think that French is a dead lang- |= uage, or is nearly dead, and passes through no evolution." All this is true emough but ft would be equally true and much more constructive to emphasize the fact that not one English-Canadian volce was raised in support or even in defence .of Sir John Adams' con- tentions and that this gentleman found it opportune to make a speedy and silent retreat from the coun- try. La Presse is one of the papers of Montreal which has leaped to the de- fence of the French spoken in Que- bee province. 'Senator Belcourt, who has made the defence of the national rights and privileges of French-Canadians the prineipal anxiety of his life, could not pass in silence the attack directed against our speech by Sir John Adams at the Conference of the National Council of Education. In a manner at once worthy and dignified, which is comsistent with his habit, our distinguished com- || patriot explained that the French spoken in Canada, if not exactly the French that is spoken in Paris, is) nevertheless French, complete, pure, lving, and not a simple dialect. The observation was opportune. At the time that it is being more and more recognized that there is a rea! necessity for teaching the two Dr. Waugh DENTIST 106 Wellington St. Phone 288. me ---- 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, in the world of MEMORIALS isa MARK of DISTINCTION and QUALITY.