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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG © _ PAGE SIX THE BRITISH WHIG 87th YEAR. Publisnea Lally and Semi-Weekiy by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO LIMITED President Editor and Managing-UDiretor J. G. Eillott Leman A, Gulld TELEPHONES: Business Office Editorial Room, Job Ofice SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) year, delivered In City «.. One year, if paid in advagce 5.00 One year, by mail to rural offices $3.60 One year to United States $3.00 (Bemi-Weekly Edition) One year, by mall, cash One year, if not paid in adv One year, to United States Six and three months pro rata. QUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES ¥. Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal ¥, M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. » Toronto, F.R.Northrup, 235 Pifth Ave. New York ¥.R.Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldg. Chicage Letters to the Editur are published only over the actual name of the writer. Attached Is one of the printing offices in Canada. 343 +2329 One fees best job The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. In these days clothes do not make the man--they break him.~--Phila- delphia Inquirer. The arraignment of war criminals in. Germany is more apt to be a pop- ularity contest than a real trial. A shortage of thread is reported, So far no one has claimed that it is because the modern woman spends 80 much time sewing. Believing that only by self-denial ¢an high prices .be brought down, a large number of men are willing to cut out the spring millinery bill, S-------------------- } The Dutch ard said to be consider- ing giving the ex-kaiser an island home, where he can reign supreme. Why could we not offer him Garden Island? A quarter of a million people are homeless in Montreal because of the shortage of houses and excessive 'rents. And the rent profiteers have Ro mercy. The Canadian Indians are going to unite for political and other pur- poses. They are entitled to be called the original Reds, and in. their case the title is an honorable one. Grantéd that the apartments are insanitary, is it right for the auth- orities to force families to vacate them when other heuses cannot be found? That has just been done in this city." Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely, according to con- science, above all liberties, said Mil- ton: That liberty is a priceless Brit- ish heritage, but one that is not very evident on this continent to-day. An increase in succession duties, as @ means of increasing the provincial revenues, is one that very few people "will object to. Premier Drury would have been justified in making the rates even higher than he now pro- poses. Another level crossing accident has occurred in which a former Kingston lady lost her life, and her husband, a Belleville'doctor, was seriously in- _jured. How much longer is the coun- Ary going to tolerate the deadly level crossing? Behold the simple-minded hen! * She has practiced greater production while we 'wise mortals only talked "about it, and as a result of her ac- tivities the price of eggs has gone down to fifty cents a dozen. Let us Rereafter consider not only the ant but also -the hen. The city carters have, through the press, put their case for higher 1a) squarely before the people. hey, too, have suffered through the higher cost of living, and are now 'asking the council to) grant them ne rellef. And it seems to. the ther claims deserve recogni- i -- "As pointed out at Monday night's il meeting, only $375 was real- shows at the fair ground year. The Whig, it may be re- vigorously opposed the prohibitive fee when it was first brought forward, and stated that such a situation would follow. 0] nial, the first copy of the paper hav- {ing been printed om March 26th, { 1870, The Ontario grows better | every day, and under its present man- agers, Messrs. Norton &. Herity, has become a bright and interesting aily, An old-timer like the Whig, which is nearing the century mark, extends the best of good wishes to | sts young Belleville contemporary. In speaking of the many changes {that have taken place since the On- arte was launched on the troubled i sea, of journalism, that paper calls {ajtention to the following facts as | indicatrag the remarkable progress {made along mechanical lines: | The man who edited that first | number of the Ontario that appeared | March 26, 1870, had never talked j over a telephone. His, composing room was not made as bright as day | by' electric light. He would have re- | garded as a dream of insanity .a pre- | diction that at the end of fifty years | the presses would be gperated by { power brought to Belleville over a {slender wire from the Trent river. | He had never ridden in an auto- | mobile, heard a phonograph, seen a { moving picture or marvelled at a | heavier-than-air machine flying {about in the sky. : The man of 1870 had none of these "improvements." But the question that we might ask {ourselves to-day is. this--Mhdve the | "improvements" brought us greater | | fullness and richness of life? | Or have they bred up a discontented restlessness, a craze for vulgar dis- play, a mania for speed and short- cuts to intellectual attainment? -------- THE NEED OF CONSERVATION. If the question were asked, ob- serves the Monetary Times, in what {countries of the world will the great- {est expansion take place during the next fifty years, most answers would include the United States, the larger British colonies, Russia and the South: American republics. That an- | swer may be correct, but there are some who might omit the United its unprecedented development, it {has reached a condition of com- parative maturity . India and China would scarcely be included, for though these countries are in a back- ward state, their 'population is so great as to prevent that increase in wealth which is commonly associat- ed with economic progress. Without questioning' the correct- ness of these views, it is worth while to examine the basis on which they rest. Undoubtedly, it is the posses. sion of national resources in propor- tion to populations The war has de- monstrated the value of such assets in strenuous times; it has been shown that it is easier to supply the military organization and the finan- cial sinews than. to substitute for those gifts which nature alone en- dows. As has been emphasi@d by Sir John Willison, president of the Canadian Reconstruction Association, raw materials are the greatest eco- nomic asset a nation can have under its control. A high standard of liv- ing can be preserved only by main- taining a high ratio of such resources' in proportion to population. True, the great advance made during the last century has been due largely to changes in the processes and in the organization of industry. But sooner or later increase in population off- sets the benefits thus derived, and forces down the standard of living until it approaches a minimum in the case of unskilled workers; this is only a theory which stands uncon- troverted over a century, but is also borne out by experience. The country, therefore, which would guard its future, must exer- cise the greatest care in the utiliza- tion of natural resources. Prodigal- ity has too often been mistaken for development. The fact that capital comes to a country for profitable in- vestment Is not an unmixed benefit, and may mean that greedy eyes are seeking new fields to conquer after home industry has been '"'developed" to a standstill The supply of some resources cannot, of course, 'be main- tained, as in the case of coal, the for- mation of which is beyond human power. But our forest resources, our fisheries and the fertility of our agricyltural areas must be preserved. That such has not been done in the Yast is Indicated by the fact that the older wheat-growing districts of the west must now be used for mixed farming, some of our fisheries have declined greatly in value, and good lumber has increased enormously in price, The protection of these resources assumes a consideration of the fut- ure, too distant to permit of the pro- blem being handled in the ordinary political field. The connection be- tween ordinary government depart- ments and the demands of the public is too close to allow them to handle the problem. It is for this reason that conservation can be best carried on by a body such as the Commission of Conservation in Canada, work must be pursued more vigor ously than ever before, or Canada will only too soon be in the position of the older countries, which must look abroad Zor an outlet for surplus capital and population. = A -- fp ----_ i -- Cotton the Coming Fad. Raw cation of a3 cents pound is likely to turn plebian minds away from the wearing of silk. : States, thinking that as a result of. lcommanded by Lieut.-Covl. R. Van- derwater, D.S.0. . which | was established for the purpose. The | | PUBLIC OPINION Explained. (Montreal Herald) Magistrate Jelts, of Hamilton, boasts that he does not read the newspapers, Probably that's because he's afraid the compositors won't get his name right. Two Types. (Chicago Tribune) | There are two kinds of merchants, One sells its old stock at old prices, the other marks up the old stock to the new prices. The latter are blown- in-the-bottle profiteers. ? \ Certain Knowledge. (Norfolk Virginian-Pilot) It may be "that one half the world knoweth not how the other half liv- eth," but, if prices keep on rising, each half will know that the other half only half liveth. As Usual. (Guelph Herald) As usual, it remains for Britain to sit ddwn on the Turk and put a stop to the slaughter of Armenians. If she is successful the motherland will be accused of being a dominating tyrant, while if trouble arises with the Mohammadens in British posses- sions as a result of the occupation at Constantinople the critical world will say it serves Britain right. Yet some- body had to act. Justifiable Doubt. (London Free Press) After all we are not so sure | about those "fifty years of Europe" | being better than "a cycle of Cathay" The past fifty years have seen Europe distracted by two of the bloodiest big wars in history, to say nothing of such trifles as the Balkan wars and the Russian Czarist massacres. In the meanwhile, except for some compa- ratively insignificant Boxer risings China has lived peacefully behind her great wall and beneath her blue and while pagodas. Will Remedy An Abuse. (London Advertiser) There will be few outside of the machine politicians who will object to the legislation introduced by: Mr. Drury to set, a standing date on whioh provincial general elections shall be held. Under the present con- ditions the power of whoever rules is too frequently abused for party pur- poses. It is unfair and undemocratic. The "holding of an election regularly will: put an end to manoeuvring that tended to give an advantage to a sin- gle section of the lectorate. Women Ministers, London Dadly News. The refusal of the Lower House of Convocation to allow women to pray and speak in churches ignores a good deal of history. Even in the days of the Pharaohs some of the most sacred religious offices were held by women. In the early days of the Christian Church 'women shared both in the ministry and the administration, playing-an important part in the progress made by the Primitive church. For the first 300 years of 'the Ohristian 'era, women were even ordained as priests, and for 800 years they served at the altar and administered - mion. It is strange that, to-day, when the claims of women, and where women do al- most all the church and parish work, we should deny them admission to the pulpit, Valuable Team Killed. Gananoque, March 31.--A valn- able team. of Horses belonging to Michael O'Hearn of Southlake, were killed by the eleetric current from a grounded stay wire of a pole near the blacksmith shop of James Byers, Factory street, Monday afternoon. Mr. O'Hearn is said to have escaped death by having a pair of rubber boots on 'his feet, he having taken hold of the bit in the mouth of one of the horses, the animal not being quite dead at the time. "Argyle Light Infantry." Belleville, March 31.--The desig- nation of the 15th Regiment, which was organized in 1863, has been changed. The words 'Fifteenth Regi- ment" are deleted, and in future the unit will be known as the 'Argyle Light Infantry.' The regiment is Premier Loses in N.S.W. Election. Sydney, Australia, March 31.-- Premier W. A. Holman has been de- finitely defeated in the New South Wales election. The assembly is likely to be evenly divided between the Labor and anti-Labor forces, Dominion Happeniugs of Othér Days. The Discovery of Coal. i "Plenty of stone like that where I | live," said an Indian as he watched a blacksmith at work in the Hudson Bay Company shops at Fort Victoria in 1849. The Indian was watching | the work, in which a coal fire was used. The blacksmith, who knew the | importance of such a discovery, made a bargain with the redskin to bring him some of what he had found, hardly expecting that he would keep 1his promise to do so. The Indian went away and for a long time he failed to return. Hope was almost at the vanishing point when he ap- peared one day with a canoe loaded with fine coal which he gave over, with all the information desired con- cerning the location of the mine, for | a bottle of rum. A prospecting party was at once fitted out and sent north: upon its return a favorable report was made on the coal mine found and the company decided at once to make a further investigation of the pit and also to mine some for its own use and for sale. But it was not until 1853 that work ir earnest began for in that year over 2,000 tons were taken from the vein This find was in the Nanaimo dis- trict and the mining was carried on with the assistance of the Indians. The output was sold largely in San Francisco for twenty-eight dollars per ton, the price at the pit mouth being eleven dollars. The difference in price was due to the small cargoes that could be carried and the length of time required for a voyage to the United States city. This was the be- ginning of a British Columbia indus- Why Do I Get Out of Breath When Running? This is also caused by your brain in its efforts to keep up your sup- ply of good blood. We breathe to take air into the lungs, where the blood which has once been through the arteries and comes back on its return trip to the heart, is exposed to the air in the lungs, before going back into the heart. The air which we take into our lungs purifies the once used blood and makes it into good blood again. When you run the hear pumps blood into your arteries aster to enable you to run. Thus algo, the arteries send much more blgod back to the heart through the véins, and this must be purified by he lungs before going back into the heart. To attend to purifying this extra amount of 'spoiled blood the lungs need more air, and thus you are made to breathe in more air for the purpose. Unless you are in good training--your wind in,good condi- tion, as we say--it is almost impos- sible for you to supply the lungs with enough air for the purpose, but whether you can do it or not, the lungs call upon you for more air, and cause you to try to get it, and that is what makes you get out of breath. From the Book of Wonders.! Pub- lished and PT ghted by the Bureau of Industrial Ed% » Inc, Wash- ington, D. C. TE The Reason Why / Jumps In Front of Train. Orange, N.J., March 31.--Rebuked by her father, a wealthy New York coal dealer, for not being punctual at her music practice, Miss Norma Atkinson, aged twenty, threw herself in front of an express and was killed. Just in Style. Customer Trying on New Dress-- Don't you think it makes me look too babyish and innocent ? Modiste--Oh, no, Madam. Quite the contrary.--London World, Ferry Scrvice Resumed. Brockville, March 31.--Ferry con- nection between here and Morris- town, N.Y, has been resumed, the gale having practically cleared the St. Lawrence of ice in this locality. The completion of the Hudson Bay Railway and the extension of branch lines in the prairie provinces is be- ing pressed on the Dominjon Govern- ment by western members. HOODS PILLS=: 2% 'ty them. ippling . Rhymes ACh else to do. She wage she's paid, tightwads, every not thrive on prune to eat, quits it with a sigh, but she can't Ii paid, and can't afford to die. night and day, to quality to teach; and we beliold her on her way, and say she is a peach ,mosegays when they're cheap, and call her Buttercup, and say the blessed schoolmarms keep our bulwarks right side up. Without her this enlightened age would sadly be bereft; she guards the priceless heritage our well known fathers left. :8pade, but when she may confess to spendthrift ways, erime; but when the schoolmarm school to seek some other trade, with some new tool, a corkscrew on Ssegays Sweet, or flourish on hot air, decent rags to wear. 'THE TEACHER. The teacher's is the noblest stunt a mortal can pursue; and yet today we see her hunt for something trade, and on what she's For years she studies loves hér high, upli We hand her We hand her taffy with' a makes complain about the measly We sweat some blood andl faint. 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