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PAGE SIX THE BRITISH WHIG/| 87TH YEAR, ra SPLENI DID | RECORD. Less than one-third of one fcent. of the outstanding taxes { Kingston for 1919 remain unpaid. per in This is a record that Kingston may | | well be proud of. In no other year { has such a result been shown, and it iis extremely doubtful if any other j city in Canada can boast of a record like this. { O.V, Bartels, tax { many years succeeded in placing the | city's business on a sound and satis- factory basis. Few things escaped his attention, and when, a few years ago, he was promoted to the respon- gible position of city igeasurer, he left behind him a record of success- ful and efficient service that the collector for hard to emulate. on this solid foundation, Tax Col- Fubluned Datty and Semi-Weekl lector Newlands is now able to an- HE BRITISH ilu PUBLLS CO, LIMITED credit to himself and a matter of | pride to the city. The fact that nearly every cent of | city taxes for 1919 has alrea®™ been paid into the civic treasury is not | ionly a tribute to the good work of J a. +. Presiden: Lem .Bditor and ng- Director TELEPHONE! Business Office Bditorial Jooma Job Oftic suse RIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, Ssiiveied m oity ... year, if paid in advance ... year, by mall to Tura) offices' year to United State ene (Semi-Weuekly Edition) year, *z mail, cash . year, not paid in advance year, to Uliited States ... 1 Six and three months pro rata. eerie gut. ~OF-TOWN REPRESINTATIV SS Calder, 22 Bt. ontr ¥. MM Thompap, Jobe 5 Lumsden Blds. 'sFonto. F.R. Northrup, 338 Fifth Ave. New York FR. Northrup, 1610 Ass'n Bldg. Chicago re a-------------------------------------------- Letters to the Editor are published sui over the wctusl name of the e prosperity that prevails in Kingston to-day. Few cities are advan- tageously 'situated as Kingston, and still fewer have enjoyed so great a prosperity during the past four or five years. Our officials are men of probity and resourcefulness. True, they have been subjected to great an- noyances at the hands of a certain alderman during the past year or so. That day, the Whig believes, is past. The new council will not tolergte such conditions, especially in the streets department as prevailed last year. The city officials who have | proved their worth--or who might, {if granted an opportunity--shquld be protected against the self-seeking ambitions of any alderman who has only a personal axe to grind. That they have been honest and hard- working is admitted. The city owes much to their zeal and efficiency, and the record they have made dur- ing the past few years reflects credit upon the city as well as wpon them- selves. The new council should--as it probably will--grant them the | largest possible measure of support | and encouragement, if only in recog- nitnon of past services loyally and faithfully performed. No one alder- man should be permitted, as in the past, to harass these officials and interfere with their duties. They deserve a fair chance, and if, having received it, they fail to make good, they can be dealt with on their merits. So far, however, it is quite evident that Kingston is being served by a body of officials of whom it may well be proud. as inn. ee ---- Attached is ome of the best Job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. Mooto for 1920: We don't know where we're going, but we're on our way. D'Annunzio's cashier has fled from Fiume with a million francs. Wha. business has a poet with money, any- way? Ships that will live in history: Noah's ark, the Mayflower, Mr. Ford's peace ship, and the Bulford.-- Rochester Democrat. Better salaries, better working conditions, Dbelter teachers, better education, and a better Kingston--- these are all related. One of the first acts of the new council will probably be the appoint- ment of an industrial commissiones. And the sooner the better. A youthful carpenter working near his former teacher's home received more pay than the teacher--in Kingston, 1s this fair to the teach- er? THE ELECTION FIGURES. 'While no official figures are as yet available as to the actual number When the government imposes of people who voted in the municipal orders-in-council it 1s criticized; when it repeals them it.is criticized. No government could . succeed in pleasing the people these days. estimated from a very reliable source that some 3,980 people recorded their votes in the aldermanic c¢on- tests. This means that the aldermen who sit in council for 1920 were elected by some seventeen per cent. of the population of Kingston. The number of names on the voters' list is approximately 6,720, so that the vote polled indicates that about 59 per cent. of the electors of Kingston exercised their privilege of taking a part in the government of their city. The other 41 per cent. stayed at home on election day, and did not trouble to record their votes or show any interest in the welfare of the city in which they pay taxes and earn their livelihood. Had there been a mayoralty con- test, the probabilities are that a larger vote would have been polled, but, with interest in the aldermanie elections at a high 'pitch, a muen larger vote was expected. Compared with last year, the vote is about five -- hundred higher, so that there is a The latest raisin erop in California | certain improvement, but yet the per- will net the growers about $33,000, |ceatzge of electors who vote is too 000, or nearly double that of any | small. The citizens who stayed at previous year. For the first time home could easily have entirely in history, the entire crop was sold changed the result in every ward before Jan. 1st. '""There's a reason." | had they recorded their votes, so that Everybody in the Usiited States must [the importance of using the balidt be "making their own" these days. |on election day should not have been ---- : overlooked by so many citizens. It there is any failure in a demo- cratic system of government here lies the key to the failure. The people who have been given the privilege of voting do not use that privilege to the fullest extent. When forty per cent. of the voters do not use their right to vote, then the system cannot be said to have a fair trial. those same people who do hot vote will probably be amongst those who shout loudest when affairs in the city council are not conducted to Now that G. Y. Chown has so generously donated a fine building for the public library it remains for some other wealthy citizens to estab- lish an endowment fund. One at a time, please. Don't crowd! We cannot educate for a better Canada so long as we value the teacher's services to the community at a lower rate than those of the , serybwoman, the janitor and unskill- ed labor. The hotel proposition and the har- bor improvement scheme are nearing @ successful conclusion, we are told. A few men have worked diligently to this end, and, if success finally crowns thelr efforts, they will richly deserve the thanks of the commun- ity. Young men and women become teachers as a means of eariilng their living. There is a nobility in their calling and an attraction about teaching. But they cannot live on nobility nor by devotion, alone. Dis- Sgresable things, lke board bills ana avd rent, must be paid. And ents' larger salar- wired. needed. : Br Seoee Pain. von B who has arrived dn the United States oc a mission connected with the economic situm- tion In Burope, is recognized as one of the best authorities on economic "subjects in. Great Britain. For many years he was' ode of the editors ot the Statist, a leading financial paper of London. He has paid several ada, and has made a close study of financial conditions in both countries. ys the war Sir George renderea important services to the British gov- | ernment and to the United States. take the trouble to get out and on election day, when they have in their hands to remedy matters getting out and voting for the men whom they consider best fitted: carry on the city's business. by about one hundred, but the num- ber of citizens voted jumped from 3.599 to 3,980, an increase of Tnearly five hundred. And there was' last year a bitter mayoralty contest which helped to bring out larger : 1tions on New Year's Day. most resourceful successor would find But, building up- | nounce results that are at once A | the collector, but it is a proof of the | elections on January 1st, it has beea | {Chuck Roast ........ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG era a ep EE ------ | numbers of voters. So that, so far | ------------------------e-- | as Kingston #8 concerned, no fault i Canada--East and West can be feund with holding the elec- i -- There ¥ only one way in which | Dominion Happenings of Other Days. {the people can be induced to take a |} proper inberest in their rights and | vile, itizens. A lor eriod | PE E gel as. eltizens. A ng Pe oe Death had prevented the great | of education ds gecessary before e | Frontenac from completing one of the votors will realize that they have a | biggest projects of his life--a treaty | part to play in the government of] | of peace with the Indian tribes of | their city, before they realize that | | Canada and the Iroquois. That work | } hol ibility does not] remairsd for his successor, Callieres, | the wha a responsibility C | who accordingly negotiated a treaty | rest with the twenty-one men Who | with the tribes at Montreal in the fall {are elected as aldermen. It is their | of 1701: The first deliberations took duty to use the vote which is given | | place » open Assemblies where i . a nN | orators dwelt upon the benefits of a to them, and so long as they neglect | | general peace. 'The Governor wished that duty they are shirking their (o make a great display for the Ind- responsibilities as citizens. It has|ians, So the meetings of the council been suggested that any man who re- | wars held 3a the gentry a a rE : . {In the forest outside the walls o y 3 of trained from using his privilege oly, 041 On a platform covered with | { voting for three successive years o,.eap boughs were seated all the im- | should be deprived of the right to | portant persons concerned in pact, vote. If that were done, the first to { Thirteen hundred Indians were crowd- | raise a howl would be the very men | d within the clearing in the woods, it! fie did not vote, but they should be | was a great scene, a wilderness of feather crowned Indian heads and | made to understand that they are | { given a vote for the purpose of tak- uniformed French leaders of the day. The Governor, who was He fost! the braves to orget | ing part in the government of their | speaker, urged { city' and that if they do not care to | | all their wrongs and to bury the hat use it, then it can be taken away | them. | The Treaty of Montreal. | chet, ending by describing the horrors | | of war in his most vivid and eloquent | language. The whole mass of Indians responaed by prolonged and tremend- | | ous acclamations in support of his | plea. Then the various chiefs came | | forward to receive each his wampum | f necklace from the Governor after | which thirty eight delegates signed | | the agreement of peace.i'hen the pipe | of peace was brought out. The Gover- lors of | nor took a few whiffs, then the princi- al French officers and after that the fa dian chiefs in the order of their im- portance A great banquet for all followed. As the night approached huge fires were lighted and the party feasted in the | clearing. But the treaty ended for a time the bitter fighting that had ed the country with Indian and blood. i trom \ i | =~ The Reason Why What Causes the Different C the Rainbow? The colors of the rainbow, which | are always the same, and are shown | in this order---red, orange, yellow, | green, blues and violet---are sunlight | broken up into its original colors. It) takes all of these colors in the pro-| portions in which they are mixed in| the rainbow to make the pure sun-| 1 light. 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Job never was really tested -- he didn't have to wait for the ratifica- tion of a treaty of peace. Loew's Incorporated Rapidly Extend- ing Sphere of Influence. New York, Jan. 8.--Loew's Incor- porated is rapidly taking advantage of the new capital available to extend its sphere of influence. Recently an- nouncement was made that some new circuits have been purchased by | the corporation. Now ome of the most stecessful film producing com- panies in the United States has been purchased. This is the Metro" Film Corporation, which has studios in the bi Not Much of a Traveller. (New York Telegraph) If Dempsey should go to France to fight Carpentier, it would be the first time he ever went to France to, Rippling Rhymes HAPPINESS. When all the nations, mad and scrappy, were plylng sword and wielding gun, we thought we would be blithe and happy, if ever that flerce war were done. We'd all get busy at 'our knitting, with quiet minds and hearts serene, and.when arrived the time for quitting, we'd burn a little gasoline. « To old time ways in peace returning, we'd soon forget the flelds of gore, and by the lamp, at evening burning, we'd delve again in helpful lore. So far our hopes have all been broken, and ire has reigned where love should dwell; the words 'of hatred still are spoken, and still the crazed disturbers yell. But now, me- thinks, the clouds are breaking, this new year bids us hope again; and pretty soon we'll all be waking to peace on earth, good will to men. We've had enough of wild emotions. that shook and jarred us to the ¥ = soul, of eloquence is frothing oceans, that bore us to no useful goal. So let us one and all determine to be as happy as we can, avoid vain strife, forget the German, and each one help the other man. ~WALT REEREERANEARCEN NEESER AEAEEEY The Wm. Davies Co., Ltd. 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