2012| is certainly of sufficient importance * The Montreal Gazette, in a well written editorial in its issue of Mon- day, declares that the resignation of ithe two members of the Civil Ser : ice Commission has created an op- portunity for the Government to re- 'store the sound principle of minis- ferial responsibility in the admini- stration of the civil service. It claims that the system that came in force with the adoption of the Civil Service Act in 1918 "expresses the impractical * theory of a group of dagogue-legislators imbued with - 'the foolish notion that morality is 'S matter of law and that ethical standards can be measured and ed by statute." It further ts out that the Commission it- and its organization have be- a heavy addition to an already ed service involving a di- pect annual outlay that js not far short of a quarter of a miltion dol- 'The British Whig agrees with The that an opportunity has ar- the ment, The Civil omiameion has been a dis- mt to its friends, and an nee to its enemies. The jeory was fing but the practice has om far from satisfactory. It is it has relieved ministers and members of Parliament of re- lity, but it has caused gen- dissatisfaction 'all over the try. Te British Whig believes in is commonly misnamed pat- 'onage. It believes that when a Lib- 'government is in power it ould appoint Liberals to office and mn the Conservative government in power it should look after its rlends. We do not mean to advo- the appointment of unqualified, sible, people to government simply because they hap- to ba Conservative or Liberal, do we mean to suggest that pt technical positions need- highly qualified men should be criticed to politics, but we do nk that all things being "equal parties when 8ive their fiends Lion: in power the system poor appointments incosslonally made. Poor ap- ts have also beem made by y dozen since the appointment of ¢| Montreal lies wrapped in a.fog of different persons have been confus- | ed, the one with the other; of Hany) fairly important persons' -compara-| rat, public property) and much | ft that is known is incorrect." Ip It is pointed out that there have |g death. - Nowhere is there readily |g available in anything like accurate shape information about the execu- tive and legislative councillors of Upper Canada, "We have talked glibly about the 'Family Compact'," |, says the writer, "but we have known' very little about the personnel of that ill-named body. And in the same way, while much has been written about the Northwest Com- pany, the history of many of the most important "fur barons" of mystery. To overcome this lack of accuracy to merit consideration, for a faulty |s or incomplete version of history is worse than none at alk If it is to be corrected the services of the research scholar and student call for enlist- ment. The publication of their work would not only stimulate study and inquiry and render available a vast store of new and valuable material; it would develop among the Cana- dian people a deeper interest in, and a more authentic knowledge of, the history of their country. n 8 t PRISONS FOR SALE. Great Britain has been experienc- Ing a great slump in her prison popu- lation since the war---covering a per |" fod when conditions were much less favorable than in the United States. As a consequence 25 prisoms in the Kingdom are now for sale, al- though nobody seems to want to buy perfectly good but unused jails. Some figures on jail population in Britain might be of interest. The prison commission reports: In the year before the war 21,560 prisoners were convicted for serious offenses: in 1924-25 the number was only 13,841. Figures for non-in- dictable offenses show a much bigger difference. In 1913-14 there were 92,149 convictions; in 1924-25 there were but 205032. -------------------- {MAKING BETTER HOMES, t n The keynote of modern home life |b is the convenience afforded both for housework and for pleasure. Facili- ties were never more abundant for |& making homes delightful and at- tractive than in this year of our Lord 1926, "Be it ever so humble there is no Place like home" is as true now as when the fact was so deeply impress- ed on the consciousness of John Howard Payne. But be it ever so humble there is no home that cannot be made more attractive for young and old. The sum of money to be spent is entirely dependent on the tastes and requirements of those liv- ing within the particular home un- der consideration. Modern conveniences take the drudgery out of life, remarks the Watertown, N.Y., Standard, new and attractive furnishings make the home more charming. Comfortable furniture, restful and harmonious colors, ample lighting facilities, de- lightful .settings--these are but a few of the features that go to make the externals of the new better home. The era of small houses has brought about use of the entire home, with no shutoff, closed up rooms. "It takes a heap o' livin' Yo make a house a home," sang Eddie Guest, but that heap 0' livin' is more al- luring when aided by modern ad- Juncts, ¢ PAYING WITH A SMILE. "Cleveland found a way to make "the traffic violator pay with a smile. It took a campaign for charity funds to do it, but it went over in great shape--killing two birds with one stone, as it were, Under Cleveland's plan a policeman who caught a driv. or violating a trafic ordinance made the motorist "donate," under the al- ternative of haling him to court. | Done on both sides with a smile, this act not only heiped a good cause but "represents Satan." presents Satan." gularly obtainable at least tons of it would be saleable each year in Ontario. of kisses," possible! easily nowadays, remarks the Guelph Mercury. But what's think Premier Ferguson some time framing an excuse for the long disfranchisement he has given London, when he meets the people there on May 12th. tive party | by my predecessor, Bureau." cles. the appointment of Mr. secretary of the Civil Service Com- mission to fill one of the vacancies created by the resignation of two LET'S KEEP ELBOW ¢ ROOM. -- Dr. David Starr Jordan, an em- tively little is known (or is, at @ny |jnent educator in the United States, ninks civilization crowds elbow coin. It destroys forests, dries up prings, turns brooks into desolat- been many notable figures in Cana- |ing torrents, replaces the big mam- dian history of whom one cannot find { mals by rats and mice and the in- in print even the dates of birth and | gect-eating song birds by * 'English This we cannot help, but | we can mitigate it, and if we care a hoot for what our grandchildren think of us, we shall leave some part of nature, unwrecked, for their con- parrows. emplation, To do this we must get busy to-day '#nd to-morrow. EDITOR NOTES. A headline repo; ) that evange- listic services are being held in Eden. A bit late? It the two parties in the United States put up wet candidates for pre- ident, Rev. "Billy" Sunday will run. Then for a very hot dry time! "phirteen," a fundamentalist says, The police have have stop The police ow his number. Will he peeding! Fuel-Controller Ellis is of opinion hat if the Alberta product were re- 500,000 "Tried to scare girls with threat reads a headline. Im- Girls don't scare that Western Ontario is advocating he erection of. a suitable memorial to Tecumseh, the noted Indian chief. He deserves it for he fought bravely tor the British. the word 'sheik' Is it "shek" or "check." the odds--sheiks and heiking will be as popular as ever "How is ounced?" this summer at the resorts. The Toronto Globe is inclined to will have The Canadian business man can est help this country by buying in the best and in the cheapest market ~--but Canadian men and Canadian oods should at least have the bene- fit of a trial--a test which is too infrequently given either. Hon. Mr. Boivin told the Commit- tee of Enquiry that "the fyles (of his department) will show that much greater favors than that were grant- d to men high up in the Conserva- Mr. Uncover the delinquen- The number of Boy Scouts in the United States is fast approaching the million mark. working you ask? The records of reformatories for the past fourteen years show over 10,000 delinquent boys had been confined----and not one Proof of {ts { them a Boy Scout! ---------------- / Bir Austen Chamberlain, after al- most forty years of public service, pleads that his record be judged by two acts that stand for peace--'"'the part I took in the Irish Treaty and the part I took in the Treaty of Loy arno." Of the eminent statesman jt can be truly said he never dishonor d or lowered the standards of pub- lie life. SN, Prince Edward Island adheres to ~ [home-made bread, as well as the simple life, more closely by far than any other province. that province bought only one pound of bread per week im 1924, Nova Scotia family bought a little more than two pounds per week, and each New Brunswick family a trifle more than three pounds. Bach family in Each The Ottawa Journal is advocating . J. Foran, pro- | { | -- m-- News and Views. - Usual in United States. Detroit News: a will there's a half-dozen lawyérs. An Easy Way Out, Ohio State Journal: The bardest thing is to say no, but we find that we can accomplish the same end by | Ji taking the matter under advisement. ners. Boston Transcript: The , differ- ence between learning golf and mo- toring is that in golf at first you hit |} nothing and in motoring you hit ijl everything. Spending London Times: who increase the available eapital of the country are those who spend less than their Incomes and save the balance. Before the war it was cal- culated that we were annually sav- pp ing about £400,000,000, and we had | }i our reward in fairly cheap capital and in immense foreign investments which brought our their annual interest. spending much more and much less, with the inevitable re- sults, dearer than they need.be, or should be. The only remedy is more saving. Its First Stapt. New York: Bvening Graphic: Pro- hibition got its first start when the railways took all men who drank from the throttles of engines. Pub- lie safety demanded absolute clear- headed performance there. It de- mands now that drunken men be kept from driving automobiles. And regardipss of what happens to the Volstead Act or the Eighteenth Amendment, the time {is not far away when one conviction of intoxi- cation will take away a man's license We are now | to drive mntil he has proved he is fit to have it restored. Quebec Viewpoint La Patrie joins with other French language papers in giving high praise to the Montreal Reform Club address of Hon. Mr. Tascherean- "Thé Prime Minister of the prov- ince made a vigorous plea before' the Montreal Reform Club to justify his Government against those who have accused it of anti-clericalism in cer. tain of the measures that have been adopted. His plea is eloquent and convincing, The law regarding pub- lic assistance, the techmical educa- tion law and other measures which have stirred the criticisms the Pre. mier complains of, will no doubt continue to be criticized, but by the Government's adversaries. Mr. Téschereau applied himself to dem. || onstrate that his Government, in regard to the laws in question, was ||| careful mot to trespass on any do- ||| main that does not come within jts | Hi proper jurisdiction, and in doing this | |i he cited the testimony of approval given by high ecclesiastical taries. But in showing that he has satisfied the legitimate exigencies of the religious authority, Mr. Tas. chereau will not thereby have silenc- ed his eritics. of religion is left to zealots who have no mission to defend it, it re- quires that the Government, if it is to escape their anathema, shall be, | according to a popular expression, more Catholic than the Pope." THE VILLAGES OF ENGLAND, (Vera Arlett, in The villages of England, On plain and! weald and hill, They were the loveliest England, And they are lovely still! As dreams that unforgotten Live in the waking brain, The villages of England - Haunt weald and hill and plain. For. are they not enchanted, The little streets we know, From Yettington to Fittlewolth And Storrington to Stow; From Barratt down to Compton, And back again to Tring, Or west to steep Clovelly, A wide-flung fairy ring! There's Shottery close to Stratford, Tintagel, legend blest, And Chalfond of the Poet, And In the runic West, Far Avalon lies dreaming Beyond the waves and snows, The untouched, fairy England That every poet knows, Where Sussex faels the sea-wind, 'Devon greets the sun. Or Hertford drops wild cherries Also, where there's | The only people |} . food to us as |} saving | Ji Both capital and food are 1 digni- | Ji i When the defence |§ Robinson Crusoe's Shirt wr S § Wasn't much to look at probably, but it proved to be the most valuable thing thing that this marooned ad- venturer possessed. When he found himself aloneona desert island, he gave some thought to ways'and means of getting back to civilization. He decided he must try to let people know where he was, so he started to ad- vertise. His advertisement was his shirt, which he fastened to a pole and hoisted in a good position. It did not bring immediate results; it did not bring any re- sults for quite a long time. But Robinson Crusoe did not get discouraged. He kept his flag flying, and event- ually it did bring big results. It is the same with advertising to-day. The man who keeps his advertisement continually before the public is bound to get results. Robinson Crusoe knew that the ships that would pass that way would be few and far between, but he kept advertising and was eventu- ally rescued. The modern business-man has a million opportunities where poor Crusoe had only one. does not have to wait. He can reach the people he wants to reach every day. He Advertisers in The British Whig know that their ad- vertisements are read in eight thousand homes in the trade area of Kingston every day. They have a chance at eight thousand homes a day, or forty eight thousand chances every week. Allowing an average of five peo- ple to each home the possibilities of an advertisement in The British Whig are enormous. In no other way can the merchant get so much return for the money as through newspaper advertising. It keeps up a daily connection between the store and the home and creates a feeling of goodwill and friendliness that is invaluable in modern business. * A twelve-inch display advertisement in' The British Whig costs regular contract advertisers less than half a cent per home per day. CAN YOU AFFORD TO MISS IT? London Sunday Times) |- c.Sale | Think of it! A Can of JAR E-LEC for 6 Cents Tear out and fill in the coupon below and present it at our store, It entitles you to & can of Poe lac for the amtonishing 6 cents. But You Must Act Quickly Better come in today or to- morrow. This offer is for a limited time only. Jobbing Work a Specialty Brick, Stone, Plastering and The Setting Douglas & Mecllqubam CONTRACTOKS 400 ALBERT STREET 'Phones 2267F----028W HANLEY'S ry 1871) Si] Pan a the world. Por rts arranged, Through tickets issued over ail} Trans-Atiantie, Trans-Pacific, Alaska, Bermuda, Mon Ingles Mediterran- ean, Round the World Lines. 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