pr " 6 rOsissnin X r DAVIES teivss President ol to the Editqr are published "over the actual' name of the no circulation of The British Whig Mthen jeated by the Audit Bureau of ire THE LATE W. E. SMALLFIELD, rhe passing of William Blgood alifield at Guelph, yesterday, will sincerely regretted by hundreds newspaper men all over the Do- jinlon. He was born in 'Brooklyn, s In 1860, and shortly afterwards north with his father, an Eng- . who had been editing The York Journal of Commerce. The settled at Madoc and started a paper there. A few years the printing plant was moved Renfrew, where The Mercury was blished. . The late W. E. Smallfield grew ip With The Mercury and when he d control kept on improving until he had placed it in the fore- of Ontario weekly newspapers. Smallfield sold The Mercury in ; And moved to Torento later go- to Guelph, where he died. ring Klis residence in Renfrew Smallfield worked in season t for the advancement of the ~~ He sat on the council for years; was mayor four times, #lso was for many years secre- the Aurisulcaral osiotr: He great interest in everything g to the community welfare, the town of Renfrew owes would be impossible to A public spirited citizen sense of the word he work- ishly in season and out for of his home town. To rts were very largely due the power development, the 'ke, the new fire hall and and also the excellent hotel; of which he was Ble until he left Renfrew. His il and kindly disposition made many warm friends." In 1918 Smallfield was honored by, ow publishers when they d him president of the Cana- ress Association. . 'of sterling worth has gone g home and the world will 'poorer for his passing. 5 : ce Friday, April 16th, In mn with which {here is fssu- ia CATE y ** supple- itor sets tor it- 'three sections de- _| the Bogrs. The raid was unsuccess- The Telegram is a wonderful sheef, full of zeal and enterprise, wide awake and Prone to assert views of a decilledly pugnacious character. In news gathering it exeels; it dishes it | up in refreshing style. Even if you | dislike {ts attitude on many matters | you admire its aggressiveness, its | stalwart independence and its effec- | tiveness in .appeal and denunciation. | The Telegram's editorial columns are | about the, best exponents of personal joutnalism extant. Tt hits with un- sparing impartiality. It calls a spade ! 8 spade with the good old English | definiteness. It is often right, it is | often alone in fighting for right, and | in many Toronto and Ontario issues it has shown all the characteristics | of a truly great newspaper. i The British Whig, nearly twice as old, cordially greets its confrare and wishes it even greater success in the days to come than it now enjoys. GREAT BRITAIN'S PLAN. In Great Britain the average mur- derer, rich or poor, lasts just ten! weeks after he is arrested. All the Jazz is taken out of the trials, as they take murder seriously in that coun- try. It takes about fifteén minutes to pick a jury In that country. In- stead of giving murderers law, Great Britain gives them justice. The word "alienist" is unknown. Government experts determine a man's sanity if it is a question. If a man fs found insane he is gent to an asylum. He is rel d from the asylum when his sanity is proven. But only insane men are sent there, so they usually stdy. "Our fancy eriminal lawyer would starve in that country," re- marks an authority in the United States. : THE CANADIAN LEAGUE. If Canadians would only study, would apply clear thinking to many problems and plans and enterprises for Canada's. weal great results would follow, The Cawadian League | has been formed to develop this in- centive. It is composed of groups scattered across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, embracing farmers as well as business men, French-Canadians as well as Anglo- Canadians, ordinary people as well as intellectuals, with the object of ele- vating the conception of Canadians and directing : their thoughts into worth-while channels through lec- tures, discussions and supplementary reading, so that a community may be better fitted to understand the prob- lems which arise from time to time and better qualified to judge between the public policies which are pre-] sented for their approval or rejec- tion. re The movement is worthy of gréat- $r extension than has already taken place, By interesting people in pub- lic affairs and causing them to be studied, it may be of real service to the country and assist in removing a situation which. is not of national well-being. ? 5 THE JAMESON RAID, A hilarious banquet at which 1i- quor flowed freely 1s charged, thirty years after it occurred, with respon- sibility for the miscarriage of plans of international consequence. It was such a party which fanned the flames of restlessness and sent the Jameson Raiders streaming across the border into Boer territory, in 1895, in direct disobedience to orders, according to John Hays, Hammond, leader of the Reform Movement in Johannesburg, Mr. Hammond was to give the signal to Dr. Jameson and his men to come to the assistance of the English and Americans against Paul Kruger and ful and the leaders were jailed. The Anglo-Boer war followed shortly af- ter. Mr. Hammond says in "The Jame-] son Raid and the World War" in the April Scribner's Magazine: "The r that Jameson started on his ill-fa trip Is this: "He was afraid that .his men al- ready restive, would give up the an- This is the admission All nature smiles in April, but not this year at least. During 1925, in New Jersey, 1152 drunken drivers lost their licenses. The downward tréend of the price of eggs suggest that the busy hen is again on the job. householder is trying to The of potatoes than in price being mins in a peck a case of grapefruit, the about the same. fr Dr. Christian M. Gauss, Princetown University, appeals to the federal authorities to wipe out a string of liquor dives stretched about the university town. The earnings of both Canadian railways lontinue to mount. Nel- ther is prospering at the expense of the other, but both are sharing in the general revival. If the finance minister feels that he can do without all that lost rev- enue, the taxpayers who would have provided it need not worry, is the Hamilton Herald's opinion. ---- Wide-awidke merchants give just as much. thought to advertising as to any other feature of their busi- ness. Intelligent advertising, backed by service, will get the business. April has been a hot month for the United States since its beginnings. Listen: Revolutionary war began April, 1576; Mexican war, April, 1846; Civil war, April, 1861; Span- ish war, April, 1898; World War, April, 1917, Colonists in Palestine have a plan for producing hydro-electric power by transfer of Mediterranean sea water through pipes or aqueducts to the Dead Sea. The ancient lake will be made to give up 350,000 horse- power. It takes the Jews to bring the Dead Sea to life. When the name of the Toron{S donor of the fifty thousand dollard to Queen's Endowment Fund was made public =a bright soul im- mediately arose in The Whig eds torial rooms and suggested that he must have got along well. If Leader Ferguson were as out- spoken on the liquor question as are Leaders Sinclair and Raney the peo- ple of this province would have a better idea as to where they stand on that important question, comments the London Echo. ' ~ While lingering winter doesn't necessarily "foretell a summerless year, the prospect of such a season provides a subject for conversation and speculation. Snow falls later than mid-April are not rare, but the sun spot cycle bodes ill for lovers of hot summer. Canada naturalized last year 12,- 288 persons; Italians, Austrians, Roumanians, Russians, Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Chinese, Germans, Poles, Turks, Finns, French, Czsecho- Slovakians, Icelanders, Ethonians, Persians; a great company out of all nations, but made of one blood, the blood of humanity. The open season for hat hunting is on, and what a task. How to find the right model to make "my lady" look beautiful and chic seems lack- ing or else--somebody else is wear- ing it. The other person's new hat always has an irresistible attraction! 'But everybody will be satisfled--or nearly so--with just the right tilt and the fascinating style. - x Claims of Canadian civilians to the amount of $58,000,000 for a tions against Germany are still un- paid. The Dawes. plan is not very promising for the sufferers. To date payments under it amount to only $1,836,634. At the present rate of going some "of the claimants might have to wait half a century for their he money. . 3 lh in the Empire. Its. stétus, dean of | way be! made totearn sufficient money to pay for its exploitation and the interest on the cost of its com-/ | struction. It follows that the cost | {of transportation must Becessarily | be very high. "Add the heavy cost of maritime | insurance for the ships that must sail through dangerous seas to the y Hudson Bay port, and it at once be- comes clear that far from the Hud- son Bay Railway being a means to re- duce the cost of the transportation of from twenty-four to twenty-five {solve whether there are mofe vita-| millions of bushels of grain--which | | is a very small part of the wheat ex- | | portation--the new route, in spite | { of the reduction in distance, will of- | | fer no relief unless the rest of the | country takes over the burden ot | an annual deficit of several millions | of dollars that the cost of a aon: | commercial, purely electoral, trans- portation ling will accumulate." ------ News and Views. Something's Always Happening. Border City Stare The teluws who have been "getting Europe" on two-tube sets all winter will soon be able to vary it by making holes-in- one and catching fish "that long.' i { Enough Inventions. { Thomas A. Edison, in Pepular Sclence Monthly: The world doesn't | need any more inventions just now; | until general intelligence has increas | ed so that men can be had to operate { what we have. Business Management For C.N.R. past been too much saddiing of Gov- ,ernment-owned rallways with char- | ges that should have been borne by the State. Comparisons are quently made between publicly own- 6d and privately owned railways, mostly unfavorable Yet 8ir Henry Thornton is proving that if he is left alone to operate the publicly owned railway in a straight business 'way, just as the privately owned railways are operated, the un- favorable comparisons disappear. The Last Straw, Exchange (British): Bostonian culture extends even to the lowest | classes. A tramp charged with drun< kenness in New York gave his birth- place as Boston. "Indeed," sald the magistrate, "yours is a sad fall. And yet you don't seem to thoroughly realize how low you have sunk." The prisoner started as if struck, and ex- claimed. "The disgrace of arrest, the mortification of being thrown in- to prison, the publicity and humilia- tion of trial in a dingy, crowded courtroom, I can bear; but to be sen- tenced by a magistrate 'who splits his infinitives--that is, indeed, too much!" ! ' ! | Status. Woodstock ~Sentinel-Review: A Square deal for every child, accord- ing to a contemporary, would help the world to go around. But thers was never a time In the world's. history when, and there never was a country where, the child had a better chance of a square deal than the present time and our own country. The very fact that indivi- dual cases of abuse of children at- tract so much attention is in itself significant. The present status of the child under our law 1s an evi progress in civilization. 3 TE Ottawa Journal: There has in the fre- (|i to the former. 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