Published Daily BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING _ CO, LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. RUPERT DAVIES ...... President TELEPHONES Office ... . 248 Roomg . 2613 Sasidiirare 4a a.13 + MORE Lesage ae14 bs SUPSCRIPTION RATES: A ft (Dally Edition) SFORr: In elty ........0..00, 50 ty year, by mail to rural offices, year, to United States Street. ue. | 'Lat Salle Street. Letters to the Iditor are published ar fhe actual mame of the 18 AN ADVANCED THINKER. . that Dr, 8. A. Aykroyd gives to The British Whig. Even if one jShnnot agree with the learned doc- 1 . ] It is always enlivening to read the 3 : one i8 impressed with his ser- fous and sincere declarations as to measures to make Canadian life bet- ger. He Is always a step or (wo ahead of the mass and his reforma- fige reader, but he speaks with con- yictions that are worthy of examina- tion and candid consideration. To Bring about reforms in the political, social and economic systems, that 80 wide adhesion as prevails to- ay, is a task that calls for the calm, .and persistent work of such as Dr. Aykroyd. He may never the fruition of his ambitions for native land, but he is sowing ~ Seed for further generations to reap, "4f they are genuinely sound and | Bffectively helpful. Dr. Aykroyd is * @ great reader and a sincere student _and he has no hesitation in declaring advanced views for the consider- of Whig readers. He is to be | for his zeal amid so ! discouragements, for men gen- rare prone to let things move lines of least resistance. THERE IS NOTHING NEW! ' On Sunday morning Kingston Arts on summer time, clock being on an hour. It is admitted it Ex-Mayor H. W. Newman #8 not really the originator of the ga, oven though Kingston itro- iced it into Ontario, for it is now 8d that the adoption of sum- yr time, is no novelty, but only reversion in a modified form to a 18 that existed for hundreds of arg prior to the twelfth century, .D., according to the dean of St. : 's Cathedral, Dublin. . An Irish sun dial of the sixth cen- ary recently discovered in County and another in County Kerry infirm conclusfons to that effect awn from the Geseér dial in Pales- ne. The hour varied in length, ac- to season and latitude, the ht hour in Ireland being in r eighty minutes andde- { in. winter. 'Mrs. Emmeline Parkhurst, the pmer suffragist leader is back in gland, after a sojourn in Canada d the United States. Hear her: fy stay in Canada has made me re of an imperl than ever. I pve In the British" Empire and 'mission for the world. It stands just government and. faif pisy "everyone. In Canadian prairie ~Toring added Teveniss [0 many Wuny m-Powers, Ine, ven: ngraham-Powers, Ine, 19 The circulation of The British Whig : {5 authenticated by the Audit Bureau of Are ne. tive ideas may jar on the avec) '| the season: tions have been materially increased. Readjustment. of bank taxes will cipalities. Legislation Mas been en- acted permitting the state -to take advantage of the eighty per cent. re- fund law recently enacted by Con- | gress. The direct tax has been Te- | duced from a mill and one-half to one mill. All told, the savings in taxes will aggregate $22,000,000. This has been accomplished while making all proper provision for carrying forward the manifold ac- tivities of the state. Total appro- priations have been increased from $169,000,000 to $185,000,000, but of the $16,000,000 increase $11. 000,000 {is represented by the-in- creased needs of public education. WHAT DOES IT PORTEND? The Presbyterian denomination in the United States now has 2,000 churches without pastors, according to statistics that will be offered May 2nd by the church's board of educa- tion to all the churches. The situa-! tion for the future is really serious, according to Rev. Lewis B. Hillis, secretary of student ald. Previous to 1920, the report states, ministers were ordained in sufficient numbers to replace the gaps caused by the death of aged preachers. During the last five years the situation has been | becoming more acute. The Presby- terian church is not alone in its need. From almost every other great church comes the same call to youth, Why this shortage of pas- tors? Is the outlook for the future of the ministry not as impressive as the lower callings of life? RURAL SCHOOLS GET GOOD SEED. Over forty thousand boys and girls will plant school . fair material in rural Ontario this year, although this work commenced only seventeen years ago, states R. 8. Duncan, Di- rector of the Agricultural represen- tatives of Ontario. This spring the department is sending out almost 400 bushels of grain and 1,000 bags of potatges. The latter were pur- chased 'last fall, and, incidentally, after paying all charges, it could sell the supply to-day and make $2,000 profit on it. This material is the very best obtainable. All the grain fs composed of standard varieties, free of weed seeds; in fact, grain fit |to register. The officers distribute it in pound Yots, which in a few years will grow into big crops il properly handled. When one remem- bers that all the Marquis and Red Fife wheat in Canada to-day started from a few kernels harvested near Rice Lake, in Peterboro county about 1842, one can realize the. effect of these pound lots of superior grains distributed among the rural boys and girls o the province. CHARACTER AND THE MOVIES. Dr. H. P. Newsholme, medical of- ticer of Croydon, England, says that many spectators are hypnotized by watching motion pictures. "The darkaess, concentrated attention and the stimulation of one sense by a bright light," he explains, "teamd to produce a hypnotic condition. In- tense films may penetrate to the sub- conscious mind and afféect the char- acter of the observer." The controversy over the possible good and bad effects of the motion picture has hung fire for a consider- able time. However, Dr. Newsholme and others often fail to consider that not only the motion pictures but everything else that we see, hear, think, or do may penstrate to our subconscious mind and affect our character. Our mental and physical experi- ences, together with the experience of others as related to us, given our own individual and peculiar inter. pretations, appear to be the domin- ant forces in building character. A charactér is seldom complete but continues to undergo gradual changes. The * influence a motion picture will have on a character de- pends entirely upon the individual and his particular reaction to the picture shown, | FIVE HEALTH RULES, . ly It has been for most. péople a long, hard winter, with much illness and under-eficiency. Spring comes with a promise of relief. The quest of health is easier at this time of year. Warmth snd sunshine help, and so does the outdoor exercise théy in- vite. - Here are some simple rules sub. mitted by a physician which will supplement the wholesome effects of Thére are five fundamentals of _{heaith, he says. They are correct|® | amount of maple syrup made in this | Quebec Viewpoint breathing. Incidentally it helps di gestion dud induces refreshing sleep. Ride less and walk more. + EDITORIAL NOTES, Even the very simple spring hats | bring top prices. } Canada last year exported goods | to sixty-five different countries. Good | enough! | It was Noel Coward who said: | "Being modern only means twisting things into a different shape!" 1 Brown-eyed "people, we are told, | are the best golfers. This ought to | make the others gréeti-eyed. A doctor says that the wearing of | a hard hat is less fatiguing to the | brain than a soft hat. Something | tight is needed on a soft head! { | The health committee of the Lea- gue of Nations reports that the birth rate is steadily declining throughout the world, with unimportant excep- | tions. { | "Here's a real mule," said an Towa | farmer to several of his friends, as| he slapped the animal on the hip. | Ten days elapsed before the .farmer | woke up, | The St. Lawrence does well to open its season with nearly six thousand new Canadian citizens. Let the tide roll on, suggests the To-| ronto Globe. | The best pralse of the Robb bud- | get, probably, says the London, Echo, ! is the extreme difficulty experienced | by opposition critics in poking holes | in it. { | Within ten, yes, within five years, the Canadian National may well be the greatest asset that the Dominion | of Canada possesses, is the optimistié opinion of the Ottawa Journal. We hear a lot about westerners havipg little time for anything buf hard work and yet Winnipeg with a | population of 285,000 has twenty] golf cqurses. Two of which are sup-| ported by the taxpayers. A joke cracked by Lord Birken- head, at the expense of a friend, is said to have cost him £7,000,000. Does anybody know of a barbed crack that ever paid dividends? com- ments the Hamilton Spectator. Step out, gentlemen! This was the Premier's advice to two Civil Service Commissioners who accept- ed contraband whiskey from Mont- real civil servants. This was the suggestion and it has been obeyed. If the old adage: "The bigger the maple syrup crop, the smaller the | yield of wheat," still holds good; there should be a good crop of the latter this year. The aggregate district will be unusually small. Rev| E. H. Brewin, St. Simon's Anglican church, needs $14,300 to pay off a mortgage. He declares there will be no campaign and no | canvassing. The only agency will be prayer. It has been effectual in other times and for good causes. Did those people who claim that the tariff is got a tax notice the rapidity with which the retail price of motor cars declined, the moment & reduction in the tariff affecting them was announced? is the ques- tion put by the Brockville Reedrder and Times. + Many a dollar is made out of articles thrown into the discard. A Lucknow, Ont., dealer took a trip west and discovered there was a de- mand for rigs on the western farm, and always with an eye open to busi- ness, and remembering the many dis- carded buggies in Ontario barn yards, he decided to supply the western de- mand. Hundreds of old rigs are be- in revamped for service. = La Patrie supports the proposal of Senator Lewis for a worthy celebra- tion of the sixtieth anniversary of Confederation. ie "The fiftieth ahniversary of the Canadian Confederation passed with- out celebration because of the anx- feties attending the Great War. But there is no reason why we should not specially mark the sixtieth anm- Versary. Senator Lewis has submit- ted a motion to this | wise, it is desirable that the sugges- | something drawn from the earth. the injury. ally where these people are fn a min- ority..- We-are convinced that this would result in a great good for everybody concerned. It is in 'the best interests of the Dominion that all cause of dissatisfaction and dis- union should be wiped out. So long as one of the great elements of the population feels that it is insulted, misunderstood, and spoliated there can be neither peace, nor harmony, nor national unity, The celebration that it is proposed shall be organis- ed would equally permit greater im- portance being attached to the his- tory of Canada and make its study more widespread. The young gen- eration does not fully realise the value and richness of the national heritagé that has come down to us from our ancestors. For a multi- tude of reasons, patriotic and other- tion of Senator Lewis should be realized." News and Views. Canada's Chief Asset. Christian Science Monitor: Canada is justly proud of its Immense re- sources of forest and fertile field, of mine, and water power. But of their greatest asset Canadians are char- acteristically voiceless. It is not It has sprung rather from an inherent consciousness in the people of the value of the "things that are un- seen." The Dominion's greatest re- source is character. Set down any- where on the globe, a people of such integrity, courage, open mind and friendliness would have made a not- able place for themselves; endowed with the unmeasured wealth of Can- ada, they will make their land one |: of earth's chosen places. Definition. Arkansas Gazette: Optimism -is the ability to speak of "my car" in the face of chattel mortage, six pay- ments still to be made, a bill at the garage, and state and city.license tag time just around the corner. Hopeful Prophecy, Woodstock Sentinel Review: Pro- vost Seager, of Trinity college, ex- pressed the opinion quite recéntly that Canada will have before the end of the twentieth century a popu- lation of 50,000,000. The predic- tion may or may not be justified by the facts hereafter; but there is this to be sald that Canada could easily hold such a population without be- ing overcrowded. It is also to/be noted that of late predietions in re- gard to the future of Canada seem to be dominated by the spirit of optim- ism. Is this an evidence of the in- fluence of the spring feeling? Juvenile nts. Sherbrooke' Tribune: The children are brought to this country by immi- gration societies, which select thenf in the homes where they have been received and place them in situa- tions. ready chosen and approved by the societies. Boys are placed al- most exclusively in agricultural em- ployment and girls in domestic ser- 'vice, in town or country. It is stat- ed that the percentage of real fail- ure among these juvenile immigrants is very small, and they eomplre to advantage with Canadian children born in this country, by reason of the training and discipline which they receive in the schools from which they come. Stop Sunday Traffic. Whitby Gazette: A resolution was passed at the Ontario Gaod Roads Association Convention in Toronto a few weeks ago asking the logisla- turé to prohibit by law trucks, ex- cept those with perishable com- modities, from using the highways on Sunday. This would seem to be & step in the right direction in view of the large number. of trueks load- ed with almost every kind of mereh-- andise seen on the highways on Sun- day. One only needs to stand at the Four Corners in Whitby for as hour on a Sunday afternoon, or to drive on a provincial highway, to realize that trucks are moving 4 great man commodities which the rallwa will not move on Sunday unless they are being carried through from coast to coast. Impressive. X A young lawyer, pleading his first Sass, had been retained by a farmer 0 prosecute a railway com fo killing 24 hogs. He ---- nr press the jury with the magnitude of "Twenty-four hogs, gentlemen. Twenty-four; twice the number there are in the jury box." : The name McCALLUM in the world of MEMORIALS Points and V 1 AS Lit ter ip me el impias a He = ; | to Paint His Floors He sure was in a hurry." Here it was Friday evening, and he had to paint the kitchen and bath- room floors before week-end company came. ! He dreaded waiting for paint and varnish to dry--waiting usually wilted his enthusiasm to finish the job. One excuse and another had put it off --his wife couldn't spare the kit- chen, or the children couldn't be kept off the floors, his inclination wasn't always in that direction, or some one of a hundred inconveniences al- ways proved a good alibi. At last, necessity had brought him to a showdown. His wife vowed she certainly couldn't do her Saturday baking hopping around on boards in the kitchen--as for the bathroom, it was a dis- grace--"But--they had to be painted." Home sweet home's atmosphere was frigid, but thoughts within each other's minds were sulphurous. He had to crawl out of it somehow. He grabbed the telephone and told his troubles to Fred Hasit, the local hardware and paint dealer. "Now, forget all that," was Fred's assurance. "rm send you up some Was between coats i 'Dries and is Ready to Walk on in Thirty Minutes' "Shoo your wife out of the kitchen right after supper and can have a couple of coats of FLO-GLAZE THIRTY MINUTE LACQUER-EN L ready to walk on before you put the cat out for the night. Less than two hours after Saturday lunch you can have the bathroom floor all slicked up for Sunday." "That settles that," sighed hubby. "Now, Fred, if you've anything more up your sleeve about this quick-drying Lacquer-Enamel, let's have it," and the hardware man did: : 2 "If you are real ambitious you can enamel your car with black or blue black and have it ready for Sunday morning." FLO-GLAZE THIRTY MINUTE FLOOR LACQUERFENAMELS are for, interior and exterior floors. You can remove the furnish from any room in your home, office or store, and a coat of Flo-glaze r Lacquer-Enamel and it will dry in thirty minutes. second coat will be for service in an hour or 80. Replace your furniture and you will have saved the inconvenience of waiting two or three days, as under former conditions. FLO-GLAZE THIRTY MINUTE DECORATIVE LACQUER-ENAMELS are for the interior decoration of woodwork, furniture and other articles in the home. Each coat dries in thirty minutes or less. Wax on hardwood floors requires Joltshihy every two or three weeks. A floor finished with Clear Floor Lacquer- el will not réquire attention more than twice a year. : - Floors, woodwork and furniture may be finished in grained effects with Flo-glaze ! Lacquer-Enamels. The whole process on an average sized floor may be continu- ously carried out and ready for use in less than half a day. The Clear Floor Lacquer-Enamel will not discolor the lightest or brightest pat- terns on linoleum or oilcloth. The ¥loor Lacquer-Enamel can be used to restore worn linoleum and make it give longer\gervice. ' our numerous tests of Flo-glaze Lacquer-Enamels we have coated lino- leums and subjected them to tests that were more: than equal to four times the wear and tear found in ordinary domestic service. In every case, appearance and wear showed better conditions than paint or varnish. Correspondingly favorable results have.been shown on both soft and hardwood floors. : SEND FOR PAMPHLET on FLO-GLAZE THIRTY MINUTE LACQUER-ENAMELS telling what these are, what they will do, and how to use them. A post card with your dealer's name will bring it to you by return mail. . MADE IN CANADA InPERIALYARNISH & Covor Co. veap office TORONTO canaoa™™ MONTREAL WINNIPEG - VANCOUVER Also Makers of Flo-glaze Paints, Enamels and Maple Leaf s A » arn. ishes. - DEALERS: -- ' KINGSTON---STEVENSON & HUNTER. LANSDOWNE---DIXON, 8. C. E. ARDEN--PRINGLE, J. A MARLBANK---ALLEN & CO. MILFORD--OSTRANDER, G. L. ATHENS--PURCELL, GUY E. Q. : NAPANEE--WALLACE'S DRUG STORE, BATH--HALL, W. H. BATTERSEA--CLARKE, MISS E. 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