: Published Dafly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING €0.. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. « RUPERT DAVIES 2013! keep away Loeb and Leopold than aly nein TE y n) One year, In city 87.50 year, by mail to rural offices, $2.50 year, to United States 3.00 . OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ¥. W. Thompson, 100 King to. lam J, Crowley, m-Powers, Ine. . ham-Powers, Ine 19 South La Salle Street. i ~~ Letters n the Editor are published only over t actaal f the Bue >| The cireulntion of The British Whig authenticated by the Audit Bureau of THE SITUATION IN GREAT BRITAIN, * There will be grave concern in Canada over the situation in Great Britain. We are too far away from he scene of the conflict to voice an "intelligent opinion as to who is right. Both sides seem to have able expon- "ents. On the one hand we have 'Premier Baldwin and his govern- ment, a government composed of some of the ablest statesmen in the land; on the other hand we have ex- 'Premier Ramsay Macdonald and J. #1. Thomas, sane, conservative labor leaders with deep human sympathies. if we can do in Canada is to hope "that a spirit of goodwill toward the fear old Motherland will soon pre- vail on both sides and that some 'gomp omise Will be reached that will : bdily end a situgtion that is nd to do irrevocable harm if al- owed to continue. & IEP CHILDREN OF): ROADS, We second Chief Robinson's warn- 'to children against playing on 8 streets. It will be a blessing | the city playgrounds are ready it the youngsters, that fs, if there 'be any playgrounds. With the of spring hundreds of chil- are ed loose on the streets, for that unexplainable reason makes kids do what they are not to do, they use the for their playground in prefer- to the sidewalks. Dashing and thither, on roller skates, "Wagons and on scooters, they're , there and everywhere. is in the knowledge that no would intentionally hurt one "the little ones that a plea is made 'help them out in their desires by ng tots off thé roads as much possible. Parents who allowed their chil- | 10. use the thoroughfares as ds, though they might ly argue to the contrary, be accused of contributory once if one of their children hurt by a car. is mot with the intention of ring the thoroughfares for speed- "gutolsts that this plea is made. is to give drivers a fair chance, | to forestall and prevent the ity for vain regrets. tli "A UNIQUE TRIBUTE. 5 : ------ The Guelph Mercury in a splendid lal remarks on the recognition, Hique and unusual, accorded to the 5 William E. Smallfield who died elph and was buried at Ren- where he had lived for many 2 editor of the Renfrew Mercury, as known by every person in His influence was recog- being for good, and while funeral the ministers of tions in the town of- Protestant and Catholic 4 when he {order when of healthful strain and 'poetry and song. THE DAILY = To be pops nized guod in all groups and to have been withont bias that would render | pring forward numerous reasons for narrow any opinion he should ex- it They say a single gutter is easier press. {to keep clean than two and that a "Editors generally are pilloried by | single subsurface drain is cheaper public criticism, but it is refreshing | than two. They say the middle- to note one here and there who re- | drained street is more sanitary in all ceives plaudits, kind words and |conditions of weather, more desir- flowers from every section of the |aghie from a community, even though these sec- | less expensive to build than the con- tions are continually opposed to each | yex type. It makes for cleaner side- other. It shows that the little good | walks, too. a in all of us is not wholly overlooked | Initial shock at the idea of a mid- when the final books of life, even | dle gutter will be relieved by the of much maligned editors, have been | realization that such an arrange- balanced and closed. ment in a modern American city will be very different from the old type of Burope and the Orient. It will not be an open sewer, but-a properly constructed. and covered drainage system. Viewed in this light it.pec gins to look like a rea] improvement. Anyhow, if Chicago stars it other | communities, need adopt it only as ithey find it advantageous, INFLUENCE OF MUSIC. The Montreal Gazette commends the splendid words of Mr. Geoftrey O'Hara on the influence of music as a deterrent of crime. It thinks Mr. O'Hara spoke well when he said: "It would cost more to put away and to provide musical instruction for EDITORIAL NOTES. three million children; and it has cost more to put away Harry Thaw ; than would provide musical educa- tion for six million children" -- a number larger than the total of/ youngsters in the whole of Canada. It agrees with the talented speaker pointed out that mufic tends to lift the minds of the young- sters above animal enjoyment and to strengthen their moral fibre. It also helps to rescue our feelings from slavish servitude to the coarse exi- gencies of material facts. Ruskin, though not himself a musical artis? claimed music as one of the most po- tent of teachers making for perfect New York State's St. Lawrence power plans show that Canada is act- ing none too soon in clearing the decks for hydro action in the near future. We don't believe that the people of Canada will agree, says the Win- nipeg Freg Press, that any industry has a prescriptive right to a 35 per cent. duty on its product. The investment in automobiles and busses in the United States ex- ceeds that of the railroads now. The annual transportation bill on high- ways is twice that of railroads. for deeper depravity and disobedi- ence if of frivolous and silly type. Was it not Milton who said that music might create a soul even un- der the cold ribs of death? And th® lecturer quoted with approval the dictum of the great Napoleon, who maintained that music is the most liberal of arts and should be given the earnest consideration of all legis- lators. If in these troubled times the crime-wave amongst the youth of both sexes has become a menace to society and an ill augury for the future of our civilization, it behooves us to find some way of directing the surcharged emotions of these young bloods into wholesome chagnels. And it is in this respect musical culture can be of the utmost service. To find some counterfoil for this unbridled and anarchic impulse is the shertest way to reformation. Music is a blackboard for the mind, a sounding-board for the heart. It appeals to the ear as scenery appeals to the eye, and, if of good quality, stirs the best emotions of the soul into sympathetic action. It would not be dificult to show that every great social reform has been preceded by a new outburst of They are closely allied to each other. There is much force in the adage, "Give me the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." It has been said that an old harp or violin is soaked with the soulful hidden pas- sions of the ages, and there are songs that have exerted a mightier influence in shaping the temper of nations than the mandates of legis- latures. ft was a mother-song that stirred the hosts of Israel to patriotic zeal and a cradle ditty that broke the bonds of Caesarean power. We call it the "Magnificat." Who can com- pute its influence adown the course of the ages, or, again, the unifying effect of such strain. as --Handel's "Hallelujih Chorus"? Music is the language of feeling, and the one faculty all nations have in common. We cannot sing or chorale in a bad temper. We can only sing when our hearts are glad and in sympathetic accord. Hence music everlastingly prefigures the harmony whereof we are to-day -in search, concludes the Gazette, and to instil young minds with this influ- ence, to bring them into companion- ship with this power, is a means of education which stands second fo none in making for the fine feeling and friendship, themselves the living roots of cleaner living and social righteousness. It is gratifying to note Canada's willingness to lower her tariff bar- riers, exclaims the New York World, at a time when our own tariff policy embodies the quintessence of selfish- ness, 'Statistics , on the destruction of American hotels and kindred occu- pancies show that upwards of fifteen are visited, more or less disastrously, by the flames every twenty-four hours. The country over shows business to be good in spots and poor in spots, with the general result pretty good, except in the minds of timid folks and confirmed pessimists. Cheer up. Don't let the weather depress you! Real spring weather, bringing a wave of health along with the nor- mal burst of energy and confidence that come at this season of the year, should soon show a much brighter situation in business areas. British school marms are agitat- ing for more pay. They want equal financial recognition with the men when the same work is performed, but the traditions of Old England in this direction will be hard to over- come, It is heartening news, cynically ex- claims The Brantford Expositor, to hear that the debaté on the budget at Ottawa is likely to last for about four weeks. This will remove the haunting apprehension that the talk erop there had been injured by the backward spring. Five years ago-the United States spent twelve billion dollars on ffavel. This year the cost of gadding by family motor car, community bus or limited train will run to twenty bil- lions. Back in 1900 it was thought travel had reached a pretty high peak when the country took a billion dollars worth of jaunts. Major Hume Cronyn, K.C., form- er M.P., of London, Ont., advocates the establishment of coking plants in central cities for the converting of Nova Scotia slack into domestic coal. Also that the federal govern- ment 'grant a subsidy for each ton of Nova Scotia coal, sold to Mont- real and points west, and for each ton of Alberta coal sold east of Win- nipeg. The Toronto Transportation Com- mission got 350 of its tickets from the Detroit radials and asking for a cheque for them. The T.T.C. is not likely to redeem them. Other rail- ways do not guarantee to do the same, and alien tickets dropped in the Toronto fare boxes are not sort- ed out so that no such demand is made on other outside railways. Many T.T.C. tickets received by out- side systems are detected by conduc- tors, and a proper ticket is demand: ed, so that the 350 tickets may not REAL SOUND ADVICE. Sir Esme Howard, British ambas- sador.to Washington, in an address in Toronto took occasion to say that he would be sorry to see wealth made the ideal in Canada. "Rather," he. sald,. "let them determine that truth and righteousness, the only true foundation of citizenship, be [Yet the advocates of the "change || trafic viewpoint and! ea A RE ree WE ot | LOOKING | AROUND { i Rev. Dr. W. G. Jordan, who is re- | tiring. from the staff of Queen's! best Old Testament scholars on this continent. His books are widely read and are of interest to the layman as well as the cleric. When in his prime, Dr. Jordan was one of the most brilliant preachers of the Cana. dian Prosytaray 4hurch. At saven- ty-four he is still a splendid teacher of students and an interesting and instructive preacher. It is to be hoped he will remain with the uni- versity here as professor of Hebrew language and literature. Queen's University has passed an- other miléstone in its history, it be- ing eighty-five years since it received a royal charter from the late Queen Victoria, four years after she as- cended the throne of Great Britain. The completion of eighty-five years is marked by the greatest endow- ment effort' made on its behalf, al- though the endowment campaigns of the seventies and eighties were most vigorous, as the very existence of the university was then threatened. The .ordinary man unédgrstands that the word "sabbath" 'means "rest day," and whether that day is on Saturday or Sunday does not mat- ter to the great majority. As the present Bunday was chosen for the weekly rest day, we will have to be content with it, What would be more satisfactory would be the mak- ing of a fixed Easter week, instead of the present fixture by means of the moon. Attorney-General Nickle is oiie of the most careful of automobile driv- ers and if ever he gets into trouble he can secure many witnesses to BRITISH WH Theological College, is one of the | swear that. His friends cannot get a nod from him as he drives along the streets as his eyes are always | looking ahead, guarding against | trouble. Mr. Nickle is spending these | days in Kingston gttending Queen's | University meetings, and is no doubt glad to be again in his native city and freed of the str@nuous political life in Toronto. Perhaps the people who fafled to put their clocks and watches ahead an hour on Baturday night might blame the civic authorities for not issuing a proclamation for a week before the change. The Ottawa newspapers contained a large pro- clamation 'by Mayor Balharrie from April 22nd until May 1st warning the people of the Capital that day- light saving would go into effect on Sunday morning, May 2nd. One failed to find any civic proclamation in the Kingston newspapers, which however, were kind enough to give the people a warning on their own account, , The passing of Rev.. Dr. James Lawson at Ottawa removes an old friend of The Whig «zd a frequent contributor to its columns. Dr. Law- son was an excellent hymn writer anfl also a composer of music. Once the writer engaged him in contro- versy over the music set to a certain hymn (a dirge being set for a hymn of adoration), and some interesting points about hymn writing and music were brought out. Dr. Law- sou served his day and generation well. Another good friend has departed in Harry W. Newman, whd took years from his life through the earnestness with. which he entered into all activities, whether it was business, municipal, church, frater- nal or sporting affairs. Harry New- man always played a strenuous "game," whether it was on the bowl- ing green, the curling ice, in the municipal council or the Sunday school. He worked to help others, and he got the very best out of life. In the midst of heavy business duties he would attend a public utilities meeting or fake a train to a place fitty or sixty miles away to help out his bowling team. He might have lived ten years longer by slowing up a few years ago, but hé couldn't. Harry Newman will long be remem- bered as one of the kindest. most charitable and unselfish Nowa that Kingston had more like m. f ------------ They Have Them, Too. Visitor: T should think by' the look of things that this is a pretty dead place. \ Native: Oh, no, it's lively for its size--why, it's not two weeks since we had an eclipse of the moon-- Passing Show. Her Fears. , : represent actual loss in fares. : the aim and purpose of Canadians. . . Then with the material prosperity bound to be theirs and by the bless-| ing of Providence, a great people would arise worthy of the sturdy " bs ps MISUSED: Say "my sons-in-av." not "my sos. 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