4 E BRITISH WHIG 98ED YEAR. * |are there? | Published Daily hy BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING , KINGSTON, ONT. DAVIES ..,. . 3012 LIBERALISM AND PROSPERITY. Bn LL NA ----------_-- EN---- THE PASSING OF THE HON. # GEORGE H. BOIVIN. "George 'Boivin W---- The death of Hon, 0 a Philadelphia hospital came as a great shock © Canadians. He had 'Won a distinguished place as a par- Mamentary debater ana Bis passing in the midst ot usefulness Is lament- &ble and regrettable. His years were Wot many but he had given real ger- Vice to his county. In contemplat- bg the death of Mr. Boivin one can- NOt help feeling that it Was not oc- easioned solely by the disease that Attacked him but that his fine tem- ent, his keen regard, for honor 3 probity, his unsullied career | and his appreciation of the noblest & In Nfe, had been assailed un. 'Warrantedly adn with political maley- The attacks upon his char- lor, the insinuations and innuen- #08 a8 to his conduct in office had ft! his sensitive nature and the and pain created by these un- us assaults, aggravated con- that mentally and physically d not withstand, . late Mr, Boivin was forty- 8 of age; fifteedi of these spent in parliamentary activi- fo won an outstanding place in' use. He studied at his home in » Que., and in 1902 at twen- of age he finished at Laval ty with the degree of B.A. 'he entered law and won honor his profession. Barly in lite he orphaned but found friends who ped, encouraged . and supported In 1911 he entered political life request of Sir Wilfrid Laurier "Who had noted his skill and ability from that date tin the present Was the highly esteemed repre- tive of Sheftord riding in Que- He was a favorite with all par. his debating powers were re. ) d and his ®eniality and free- from unfair tactics, justly gave '& warm place In the affections members. He was the gifted WY Speaker in 1917, was offered declined a cabinet position in 8 Union Government; in 1925 he ved to the portfolio of Minis. Customs. Then, ln+ attacks, first for his gen- on towards a fellow mem- ' then for his share in the Mit customs enquiry, pp thor. ly defended conduct on both @in parliintent ang onthe tore the sham from the de- 8 of his unjust crities. tons cut deep iuto was wounded unjustly things bore in upon nis Bg' him down until when leted him, he collapsed. i _y ss target of Con- | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ee nt © tion, and that is the 2nd of it. Thus, | { for practical purposes, no matter how { | Many verses Mr, Key wrote, only one | {ot them counts, and that is the first | verse. That is the only verse any | | citizen can remember, and that is | | the only one he is ever required to | sing. All this is'as_it should be, | | After 300 years, only editors of en- | e¥clopaedias/ will know that there | o ~ | are--well, | 07, WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: son OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: not as in "home." how many more verses | The same might be said of Can- | ada's National Anthem. We sing or | { liggén to only one verse, though there | {are more than that. But few people | can sing them through. The same | | applies to "The Maple Leaf" and "0 | Canada." We know the chorus, but | order, complaint, WORD. STUDY: To-day's word: PROFFER; the proffered compliment,' DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH BY W. L. GORDON )" "I was angry at (an animal or t | OFTEN MISSPELLED: chaperon SYNONYMS: diseake, sickness, malady, Indisposition "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by masterin to offer for acce - Say "I'was angry with (a per- hing)." comely, Pronounce the o as in ; Bo final e, illness, ailment, affection, dis- +» infirmity, Pr & One word each day, ptance, 'She declined Int Ing when the verses are to be sung the | \ | reat bulk of the people, only el EO [the tune, It would be a good thing | American poet columnist, sings on to memorize more of the verses, returning from his annual vacation: They are full of patriotic sentiments, | ----ee-- | They're hiking for the mountains | and the oceans and the rivers; How is it that every time a Con- | servative . government comes into | Power in Canada, deficits and trade | For stagnation are the rule, 'while every time a Liberal government takes over the administration of affairs sur- pluses and trade prosperity are the 'rule? The Montreal Herald makes The East is touring West, merely going Somewhere Else is how you take a rest." This is true philosophy, and ex: [would be inexplicable, | millions of vacationers milling ang answer: weaving around over the face of this The history of Canada supplies | broad land must make, as viewed abundant testimony to the . invari-' from the moon or the nearest planet, able character of the above-mention- | a scene of unutterable confusion. | ed phenomena.' Not only is this the They look, at any cross-road or rail- case In' the federal fleld, but it is | road station or wharf, as it they did- true also In the provinefal fleld. | n't know what they were about, any Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New | more thgn a lot of fishing worms, Brunswick and Nova Scotia have all | But they do know where \they are suffered heavily under Conservative | going, and what they are doling, | rule, The, Conservatives in each | every last ome of them. province have piled up deficit after They are en rdute from Here tof déficit, and the Liberals, succeeding | Somewhere Else, in quest of a Rest- them, have rehabilitated the finances | ful Change. And nearly all of them | and restored prosperity, will get it, even if they don't think It ail be remembered that when | 80 when they arrive home again, the BE be rome were returned to ------ Power at Ottawa fn 1911, there had EDITORIAL NOTES. been under the Laurier regime 15 years of unbroken prosperity. There Chewing tobacco never started g had been continual surpluses in the forest fire. national accounts, Business was 2 booming, and immigrants were pour- | ing in at the rate of 1,000 a day. After a few months of Conservative rule the whole character of the eco- nomic situation underwent a change, Immigration Came to a standstill; in | fact, six years after the Conserva- tives had been in power Sir Henry| There are a hundred varieties of Drayton himsel?, in his famous re- [hammers made. So you can-see why Port on the railway situation, said | 80 much knocking occurs, that there had been Practically no increase in the population since 1911. Notwithstanding the fact that | Ta the population was not Increasing the | Pe 2 hundred. Conservatives kept Increasing the ex- | lonesome, penditure and piling up deficits right oH EE along up to the time of the war, and Lady Nicotine evidently 'finds before there was any talk of war Southwestern Ontario a fair field. business was in a bad way, The tobacco erop this year is especi- And that 1s not all. Although tne | 217 fine. Congervatives had claimed that Laurier was building too many rail- business known. ways, they themselves plunged into an unprecedented orgy of rattway | Lo "onsistent dignity or modesty building, financing unnecessary roads : right and left. There was every rea- son for railway expansion during the Laurier regime. In pone decade un- der Laurier the Population Jumped from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000, or nearly 40 per cent. When Laurier Went out of office there were 25,000 miles of railway in Canada. six years after that, despite the fact that the population had not been increas- ed by immigration, the total mileage had been increased to over 40,000 miles. When Mr, Melghen left the Prem- lership of Canada, he handed over to his successor a tremendous legacy of Bational debt. During the ten years the Conservative party had been in Power there was added to the na- tional debt of Canada the entire capital cost of the war, the entire cost of demobilization, and about $170,000,000 in addition. The gov. ernment of which Mr. Meighen was a Genius, says Joseph Mazzini, is God's interpreter. True! from g hot SE -- . It is sensible to refrain drinking alcoholic liquors durin weather. or any other weather, -- -------- A dietitian says if one subsists on W onions exclusively he will live to But he will be awful Advertising is simply making your As such it is per- with anybody's The Canadian Pacific has just com- pleted one of the best half year's business in the history of the com- pany. Good times, eh! The standardization of post cards and envelopes is proposed. It would help the postal authorities Breatly in stamping by machinery if there was uniformity." : King Albert, of Belgium, in order to set the example of economy is eat- ing black bread. Even so, it will Prove much more palatable than the humble pie diet of the ex-Kaiser, ---- In 1920 Mr. Meighen said, "We can never have a high tarife in Can. ada." Last year he sald he wanted a high tariff. And now he wants a "reasonable" tariff. What on earth does he want? , ---- A Japanese chemist is reported to | shocking condition, so much so, that member made not the slightest effort during the progress of the war to pay for any part of it. They bor- rowed money on the credit of the fountry and added to the Knight of the Golden Fleece if he can debt, thus reserving for t make two crops of wool grow where who would return home from the one grew before. war the added task of helping to pay for it. Not only was the country heavily in debt, but business wag in a have discovered a fluid which inject- ed into the veins of a sheep promotes the rapid growth of wool. The in- ventor is entitled to be made a The Wigles of Esséx have had a reunion and the results in Canada are placed at 4,000. happy people, but they are going to change the Epelling of their name, They are usually calieq Wiggles; the new gpelling will be Wygle--Y-G1. May the family grow! 752,000 people seeking employment had Jeft the country during the Con- servative regime, Four years o 000 per year to replace of glass, in her school windows. It can't all be accident. "Perhaps they have little Red schoo) children as well as little red school 'houses and little read school books," is the way the Toronto Star puts it. trade record creases in. the ge- tion, and subs ai -- uml. gral » Substantial } ot taxation. : . | Daisy, Pansy, | "They're rolling in their royees, | 4iMculty 'a sa | they're rolling in their fitvvers, | And while the West is touring East, | [to the list of winners. i Plains a situation which otherwise | All of these | on Target o tae The British Whig Commercial Printing Department specializes on factory forms and business They are a/- RS It is sald that New York pays $85,-] broken panes | he Violet, Lotus and The girls will have no ying it with flowers. Mamguerite, Sai Alreraft "displays" are becoming almost as Popular in England as horse racing. Another sport added cuss t -- There's a grain of truth in the as- sertion of Dr, J. H. Holmes: "There are too many students whose aim is cs Australia is parties into the Canada and the United States with the prospect of learning more pro- gressive methods, "Imitation is the sincerest flattery," sending out forms, your The Ottawa Journal is of opinion that the personnel of the Hydro Elec- trie Commission, from top to bottom Printed Forms eliminate ¢ Does your firm use them? he matter with superintendent. business more wast- time and wasted material. Dis- your Let Printed forms make efficient, Seems to be stricken With paralysis, 80 far as the Prescott highway is concerned. We have heard the same tune in regard to the other fourteen highways, ---- Those who visit auto camps are generally appreciative. But some ate boors. One turned up at St. Mary's. He tore all the signs off the trees ang 8plit them up for camp stakes. It ig such vandalism as this that prevents those who "live in the house by the side of the road" from being "a friend to man." Many often suffer through the sing of one, es seen The British Whig Commercial Printing Department Phone 2614 ee Ta ; News and Views. They'd Be Spicer. Brandon Sun: Sometimds, . we Wish the men who write the, adver. tisements for the books would write the books. ------ Pleased to A. Outlook: A butcher ong " Has Put Foot Init Setogn by nnd Toronto Star) George 5 Nicholson, Speaking from ex-M.P., the same platform as Mr. Meighen himself, charged that "one of the prineipal public build. ings at Ottawa had been partially made ga disorderly house, whose keeper was on the pay-roll of Can- ada at a salary of $3,600 a year. A Canadian press despatch sent this charge all over the dominion, Toronto Telegram, more news of this, from "the civil sérvice is over the statement The Tele- on to say: How Unkind! Border Citles Star: can be grown by wireless, according to an English gardener. But some way to throw vegetables by wi Ottawa, saying much exercised by Georges B. Nicholson." gram correspondent went "No ome here know what Mr. Nicholson referred to or upon what his statement was based, but Is the Hon there were signs to-day that con- ¥. sidérable fuss is being kicked up about it among the eivil service, whose voting strength 1s fully fitteen thousand." In this case M to have put his foot in it. Vegetables Rotary's Aim, Rotary Bulletin: Rotary has at least one intention that can be ae r. Nicholson seems | COmplished in every language---to The civil | make good citizens ont 4 ma- service numbers some fifteen thoy. | terial, helping to destroy t power sand votes ! These people have no of juvenile delinquency in the com- mind. to be slandered in order that (munity and increasing the under. George B. Nicholson may Shock the | Standing of world peace by begin- electors of East Algoma into voting | ning at the early age of boyhood. for him. No doubt every effort of in the Conservative party will be made Too Much Mud. to square itself with the civil service Calgary Albertan: The ; ection ' contest, up to at Ottawa-on account of the votes at stake there. But the Nicholson | time, has been no credit to the Can- adian people, The attack on the King Story has been sent all over Canada and made available to the party can-| Government, for viclousneess, has never been equaled. Itisa vassers in their work of influencing voters. a j tion of rotten attack and piftling assault. The like of it has never been seen in this country at any time and we are six weeks and more from the election. . ' RS] Conserving Its y. New York city has a a of forty-nine billion gallons of water as eveaty-five billion a The decrease is due to last spring ang the in- mption of water In the discovered that the young Jady had her eye on another man al] the while. ------ ~The Farmer's Gamble. Toledo Blade: The farmer's oceu- Pation has become a gamble for him because of the fact that both a crop fallure and a large production of . Neither can he ring planting is Answer to the farmer's ostion comes 'at harvest like the turn of a upon a table, -------- Meals for Sponges. One of the hardest things to be- lieve is that the spongé you use ize of the Eiri, daily was an animal, and nbt a vege- | According to the International table growth of ths Ocean. Sponges Geodetic ang Physical Union, the live their own lives, and eat their (earth is exactly 7926 and 673 thous- own food as other animals do. The [andths of a mile in diameter at the separate existence of a sponge begins equator, and 7899 ang 694 thous. # with the breaking away from the andths of a mile through the poles, . barent of a tiny pafticle. The lat-{ This caleulation Was made by 5 pro- ter, after being whirled about for | fessor at North-Western University, a time by tides and currents, even. 8nd has been accepted by the sefen. tually attaches ftself to a piece of [tific world, rock, and from that home it seeks its own liviihood. The food of in- fant sponges consists of yelk cells which contain a form of nourish- ment.Later, as the sponge grows, it requires something more solid, ana this Is brought by the currents, which sweep into a bag--halt mouth, half stomach -- minute particles of new food. ¢ creased consu city. is sufficiently grave make it necessary to fas to stop all waste. All of the fact that the Greater Clty has been steadily increasing its source of water supply. ' ----------