| -} he gl Nl ' dB Le i # or, EEE Tr w. a aa veers. President to the Editor are published the actual mame of the 8 cirenlation of The British Whig itieated by the Audit Bureau of n a DEFEAT OF BOTH BY-LAWS, What impresses one in-connection 1 vith the two by-laws, presented to 'people yesterday, is not their t so much as the apathy of the 3 ers. Only about twenty- t per cent. of the registered : went to the polls to cast ballots on two Important meas- It is possible that had even ly per cent. of the voters exer- d their franchise, both measures uld have been carried, for many pinent men have stated that al- mgh the newspapers gave all ible information and warning. iy forgot all about the voting day not go to the polls. Some a by-law that should not pass be carried because of public y. Citizens should be interest- enough in the affairs of their pality to express their opin- when a by-law for the expendi- of money is submitted to them. In the case of the Monarch Bat- tery by-law, The Whig believes that '§t would have secured the necessary hird vote had half 'the quali- ratepayers gone to the polls and their ballots. The by-law led because too many citizens did care how the day went. Instead '00 people recording their vote there should have been majorities were obtained. a good that the commercial was anxious for the ilshment of industries here, full well, the importance them in the life of the city, Mr. should feel encouraged at the goess attained. The vote showed 'growing appreciation of his en- ¢ to give to Kingston a con- ot merit and capable of much pn. At another time a more hensive plan may be laid be- the people, and Kingston will to him that measure of ex- pn for his factory that has given to outsiders. Fair and treatment of should be the purpose of | ratepayers. Mr. Cohen is build- Fup a fine property, and, as he 8 mah to whom the word fallure gp, we may expect further mts end for 'which King- s will show marked ap- 2 ED, NOT. DISOCOUR- AGED. who were interested in the ment of the fair grounds by- But the by-law can be 4 again, and as the referen- nts, was handsomely sup- a remewal In asking for i. - do the work will likely : is regretted that'Mr. R. 1 was not given large sup- lite. every manu- drivers. REPRODUCED BY RADIO. The great British labor strike, aside from providing a news-hungry | world with a new sensation, also de- | monstrated to newspaper readers the! wonders of a new product of science. | Pictures taken in London on one day were published in Canadian papers | within a few hours, and--so used | have we grown to astonishing things | --very few paused to grasp the real | significance of it. Across the ocean, | through hundreds and hundreds of miles of air, come pictures of strike scenes. The pictures are still a little crude, it is true, but sure to reach perfection with a little more oX06ti- mentation. Radio, annihilator of time and space, once more reveals its magic-- as wonderful as the storied flying carpet of Bagdad.' THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, The scourge of scarlet fever, a dis- ease that used to cost thousands of lives annually, has been lifted, And the hand that rocks the cradle play- ed a dramatic role in the undoing of the peril. Seven years ago an obscure young Chicago physician, Dr. George Dick, .,| believed he had found a way to dis- cover the germ of scarlet fever and to effect a reliable cure. But no funds were available for the vast re- search he had to undertake. Had it not been for Dr. Gladys H. Dick, his wife, scarjet fever might still be kill- ing thousands. She found a position as technician in an Evanston hospi- tal, Much of her work was mental. It was her salary that enabled her husband to continue the research that led to the successful discovery of the germ about two years ago and development of an efficient serum, Those were five hard years for Dr. Dick, and five hard years for his wife. They faced countless sacrifices to give te the world a fact of the highest value-- a means of saving Dr. Gladys Dick is only one exam- ple of womanhood at work. The story is typically modern, the wife and husband both earning. But this is the modern marriage relation brought to an Ideal--the woman helping to produce a great gift for the world. BE CAREFUL OF ICE WATER. The quality of iced drinks con- sumed during the year and particul- arly during the summer months stag- gers the imagination of Europeans and it might well give us pause, for the ice water habit is perhaps not as harmless as some people think, Probably the best water is spoiled by this ungoverned habit of putting ice into it. So determined are we to drink our water iced that rather than drink clean water of ordinary tem- perature many of us will drink water out of coolers even though we have seen dirty hands pouring dirty ice into the cooler before our very eyes. Even when water is chilled in the most sanitary way by ice applied in such a way that it does not touch the water, that water is often too cool to be taken into the normal human body, suggests Dr. Hugh 8. Cumming, Surgeon General, U, 8. Public Health Service. Iced water should never be taken in large quantities at any time. It should not be taken in any quan- tity when the body is overheated. A refreshing degree of coolness is de- sirable and ought to be sufficient to satisfy even the most fastidious pal- ate. To be sure, there are forces of na- ture which exert themselves in puri- fying ice. These forces are crystal- lization, temperature and time, but you must not conclude from this that there can be no danger of ice c¢dn- veying Infectious diseases because there is danger and pure ice is easily contaminated by unclean hands. SACRIFICED CHILDREN. Traffic accidents last year took the lives of 7,000 children in the United States. One editor, shocked by the | figures, writes: "The heart-breaking, ruthless slaughter of the 7.000 is a blood offering to our civilization; just as inexorable and as cruel, and to an extent as terrible as the sacrifice of children to pagan gods of old." titied that, just as children are no longer sacrificed to gods by any clvi- lized peoples, so the day will come when they will not be sacrificed to the modern automobile. Several checks for this evil are available, First, more careful Sutamubie Second, more careful parents who teach children not to run out in the ; this year. Let us hope the conclusion is jusajs BY W. L. WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: there 7" OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: syllable as "yar," not as i-ar. hint. WORD STUDY: \ bridegroom. If he eats it he will take on weight! ------ More than 455,540 settlers from the United States have taken up homes in Canada since 1915. Ants are reported quite plentiful So a successful picnic sea- son is looked forward te. Britain is lucky in one matter: She has no, Riffs to worry about. Hasn't she? Where are the riff-raffs? India will have practically no wheat for export this year, according to a forecast by the Indian Depart- ment of Agriculture. It fruit prices be as favorable as the price of sugar, this ought to be one of the great preserving seasons, coyly remarks the Hamilton Herald. The Woodstock Sentinel-Review is convinced that we should have a fix- ed term of office for all governments and a fixed date for elections. These would removq much anxiety and spe- culation. When we read that Chicago was to be blotted out and the St. Lawrence riyer dried up In 90,000 years we gbt quite a start. However on a second reading we were quite reliev- ed. We mistook it for 9,000. A prognosticator suggests that the shutters will be put up on parliament about June 18th provided red hot w@ather edges in. Since 1922 parlia- ment has prorogued three times in June; in 1924 it ran to July 19th. Out at Vancouver, Premier Fergu- son is reported to have said he "had a temperance policy that would please both the wets and the drys. Eastern prints suggest he was misre- ported, and likely said he had a policy that would "tease" both the wets and the drys. The late Theodore Roosevelt in an article on "The Way to Better Things," said: "The law of worthy life is fundamentally the law of strife. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage that wp move on to better things." The best time for by-laws to be laid before the people is when the municipal elections take place. At other times,--and especially on a Monday--the minds of the people are concerned in other things and voting is unfortunately forgotten. When the city i8 aroused over civic affairs, is the time for presentation and dis- cussion of money by-laws. Mr. W. F. 'Moore, principal of the Dundas Public school, has just had his seventy-fifth birthday and has been worthily congratulated. He has been teaching for fifty-four years, thirty-two of which have been in Dundas. He has had his share of honors in Ontario educational cir- cles and is a man of high principles and lovable qualities. He has sown golden seed and has been privileged to find much of it sown on good ground with a hundred-fold return. Congratulations! DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH | 'Say "did you go there formerly ?" OFTEN MISSPELLED: creator; or not er. SYNONYMS: insinuation, intimation, implication, suggestion, "Use a word three times and it is yours. Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering ome word each day. To-day's word: IMPERIL; to place in danger; jeopardize. whole industry has been imperilled by this condition." GORDON é Don't say "did you used to go peculiar. Pronounce the last " "The LOOKING AROUND Cooke's church has had six pastors in the past twenty-five years, and al- though it is an old Irish congrega- tion, five of the six 6 have been Scotch. Previous to 1900, Rev. Samuel Houston, a splendid preach- er from Belfast, was pastor. During his term Cooke's bought an organ, having up to about 1894 refused to have any musical instrument used in the church to accompany the sing- ing. Cooke's has always had live ministers, and is now losing a very active pastor. The next two weeks Kingston will be full of clerics, as the Bay of Quinte Conference of the United Church meets from May 25th to 31st, and the Anglican Synod of Ontario convenes from June 2nd to Sth. There will be in all nearly 700 delegates to these two church gath- therings. Kingston will show its well-known hospitality to the strangers within its gates. All Ottawa is searching for Charlie Bowen's lost water spaniel "Nipper," who stole a ride to the Capital on the running board of Dr. Abble Mahood's motor car and then 'beat' it." Perhaps "Nipper" may wander | into the House of Commons and get the member for Kingston to drive him back to his Brock street home: It 1s good to know that the tourist camp at Lake Ontario Park is practically assured. Kingston wants every tourist it can get, and the camp represents a large pro- portion of those passing through. This year the hotels may find the camp a good thing, for one tourist brings another, and only about one- quarter of those travelling camp in the open. -- The men, as usual, are away be- hind the women in regard to appear- ing with straw hats. Here we read that on the 16th of May a few men appeared on Kingston streets, with straw "lids," whereas last February we noticed straws on women here. -- Mr. J. E. Jones, who was with Kingston's street railway company for twenty-seven years in charge of Lake Ontario Park, is now in his seventy-ninth year. Thousands of children will have occasion to re- member kindly the old park man- ager, and moments they would like to live over would be the happy rides they had on the merry-go-round, whose "music" still sounds, in their ears, although years have elapsed since they anjoyed their gambols at this park in the days when the street cars were unable to carry all who wished to go out there on sum- mer evenings. They will all wish Mr. Jones the best that life can give. What advantages the youngsters of to-day have over those of thirty orf forty years ago! Here they can read in the daily newspapers all about the North Pole after an air- ship expedition has flown over it. Now the North Pole ditions are vividly descr us. When the rest of us were kids we only knew that it was a very cold part of the earth where Santa Claus kept his reindeer. 2 Li ile, 3 i- Ei British Whig Bldg. HEN YOU HAVE A PRINT- ING JOB, DO YOU THINK OF THE BRITISH WHIG COM- MERCIAL PRINTING ,DEPT.? tof Fine printing -- good service reasonable prices ot The British Whig Commercial Printing Bepartment Phone 2614 Kingston, Ontario Stock Brokers and Bond Dealers Members: Montreal Stock Exchange Phones 2780-w or 1797-J. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance Agent, 81 Brock St., Kingston, Ont. Toronto Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg Grain Exchange Branches at Toronto, Ont, Montreal, Moncton, N.i. Sydney, N.S. 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