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THE BRITISH WHIG! fi rs time when the present economic ten- 87th YEAR. | dencivs began, there has always been la tide from country to city. And the pessimists have been saying for cen- |turies: "Soon there will be nobody [left 'to till the farms and then we {&hall all starve," We are not dead | yet--at least over 8,000,000 of us are Inot. The great majority ot our peo- | ple reside in the rural districts or in {the small towns and villages, which are in close relation with the coun- | try districts and where there is more |ebb and flow of the human tide. { Munition factory wages undoubtedly | worked havoc in the farm forces. But | | once. I don't know as i had ought to {the great harvest which has just been {garnered in his given the fields again | their turn in the swing of attraction. | A like influence is the dearth of | city housing accommodation. When » {the decennial census is taken next ING | year the proportion of people in the | country may prove to be higher than President (at present. The movement is one Editor and | Managing Director that is satisfactory from every point TELEPHONES, of view. A study of the relation be- Business Oftice Cer «s».-248 | tween industry and population, in Banana Rooms .l2ez city and country alike, will prove | one of the most interesting and fruit- Published Dally and Semi-Week! THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLIS CO, LIMITED J. G. Elliott .... Leman A. Guild ... the country to the city. From the THE ficer who pulled him up short. "What's the matter with you?" woe and became smiling. "Don't you try to find her--she'll find you," he said. "Stand in ons spot and don't leave it, and she will get you in three jerks of a dead lamb's tail." and on the shoulder and left him. Sure enough 'Lize Jame pounced on him inside of two minutes. She lit on him like a hawk on a hen, "Darn your skin, Bildad; I've been follerin' you 'round an' a-chasin' you fer an hour an' this is the first time You stood still fer half a second. I c'd see you all the time, but you was like a hen turkey in a hurry patch. Blamed ef I c'd locate you twice at sympathetic and merry you, Bildad; you're a-goin' to be a nawtul trile--look out thar! what you want to walk over that kid fer? Bildad, you had ought to have bells on you. Grannie says that most every man had ought to have a bell onto him. You couldn't go out to the barn, Bildad, but I'd hev to go'n look fer you. You couldn't go down suller er upstairs but I'd hev to gO an' look fer you an' find o Sam Hill was keepin' yuh, Ef I mer- Iy you, Bildad, I want you to promise that you'll stay put. I want to know where you be." Opportunity is of the feminine gen- der 'and she is always looking for | The 'officer listened to his tale of | PUBLIC OPINION he patted Bildad| : = DAILY BRITIS rr ------ -> The "Reason." (Baitimore Sun.) { The reason an article costs $10 more is because the material in it {DOW costs 13 cents. mcre and the | labor 9 cents more. ' Prohibition Ruining Everything. (Cincinnati Baquirer.) | "Banana erop seriously threatened {by droughts--headline, It is simp- |1y awful the way prohibition is ruln- | ing everything. An Abandoned Hope. (Philadelphia Herald.) William Hohenzollern has made a | new will, Who cares? The world has even ceased to hope for its early ad- | mission to probate. Three Years Late. © (Woodstock Sentinel-Review.) The Grand Army of United Veter- {ans, through its president, makes a {demand for the conscription of pro- ut what'n'fiteers' hoards. We are afraid that | | this demand is just about three years too late to be of any, use. Hard To Prove. (Brockville Recorder.) The cost of living is away down, a H WHIG | ET MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930. LE -- TT od BIBBY"S Men's and Boys' Wear Store. Pre-war Prices, Sale Overcoats Young Men's Models. Coats that were intended to be sold for $3250, $35.00, $37.50. Sale Price, $27.50. Overcoats. ~ Suit and Overcoat Sale Men's and Young Men's All This Season's Style, Newest Colorings, Choice Suit Sale Models. A 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) { ful phases of the coming census. Se 50: Jeuvarsc ip Sty masa {Everybody is familiar with the fact 'that it is not alone the lure of city Amusements, comforts and wages ; Departmen you. It's a mighty good scheme to | according to the Labor stand on one spot and let her find at Ottawa, but before the R. and J) you. I have known cases where Op-| is satisfied that this is so we wou 5 portunity chased a man half way have to secure a glimpse throug Fabrics, One year, by mail to rural offi ( One year, to United States ..., (Semi-Weekly Edition) Men's and young men's fine (TTT One year, by mall, cas One year, If not paid in advance One year, to United States . Six and three months pro rata. Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual name of the writer. a Attached is one ing offices in Can 1.00 1.50 L160 of the best job print- ada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. Pr rr Simin cn cia ts nt. / verb, primitive form of auto; obsolete, ---------- Now if we can only make the warld sane for democracy, Everybody out to Kingston's big fair, the best in the land. -------- All roads lead to Kingston week. The big fair is on. this N---------- The breath of scandal is ao longer camouflaged with cloves. « " The great need of the times is a carburetor na will use gasolean. Strangely enough, the more idiotic the cause, the more zealous its fol- lowers are. This is Bushell's week, May the measure be heaped up and running over. ' t } m------ There's one consolation about high prices. The loafer and hig money are soon parted, ---------------------- "Oh what a charge they made" wasn't written to perpetuate the glory of profiteers. ------------ Some day the Reds will reflect concerning the lot of preachers and will demand a one-day week. Some men are horn rich, some Work for riches, and some can recog- nige a sucker at a glance. ---------------------- In Ireland they hunger in the eause of Uberty. Over here they do it in order to teach school. times Debs is not an issue in the United Statds' presidential campaign. An isgue is something that comes forth. -- The poor Red who carries a rifle for Lenine may think it reads: "Prey for those who despitefully use you." -------- The example of MacSwiney is earnestly recommended to persons in this country who do not like our form of government. .You might say that Debs Is the . only candidate for the United States' Presidency who is supported by the government. : -- Gasoline is about twice as dear 'fh England as it is here, bu! one can itake a day oft and 'motor all over _ the British Isles, { . -- : Some people ought to rememben that when a reporter asks questions 'he is fulfilling his duty to the news- Paper and the public, not satisfying (#18 own curiosity, and should there- ! treat him accordingly. ~~ A woman who a chew of to- 'bacco in front of a policeman is tak- ing up a lot of 'space in the papers. Perhaps she shocked him, but she was miserable not to offer him ,& chew after receiving directions from him as to finding her way. Except for that part of the provin- highway leading from Kingston & point a little west of Cataraqui, roads in the vicinity are incom- bly worse than those which ! from other towns and cities Ontario. The business interests \ l & city demand good roads to-day . Wihin its trading area. The Motor Lassne has done good work in put- ting up sign boards, but much re. A em -- THE TREND OF POPULATION. 'When the tendency of any sort be- to slow itself, people who love Rrong, mouth-filling = generalities ke to make jt cover everything. A group of these pet summar- relates to the movement from {which draws people from the coun- | try. They leave because mechanical {improvements have made it possible | duce an equal or greater return from ithe soil. If more men labored beside {the machinery a higher return would {be obtained; but the higher return | Would cost more than it is worth. In {the cities the connectelon between ig- |dustry and population is far from |constant, and requires careful analy- |8is. This cannot be made with any {degree of satisfaction until the next feensus figures are announced a year or 80 hence. -------- FRANCE'S NEW PRESIDENT. Evidently having in mind the de- |lay and cireumlocution necessary in | choosing 4 new president for the | Unjted States, the Syracuse Post- {Standard remarks that a campaign {for the presidency of France is a short and simple affair. It is, im | comparison, though we elected a {prime minister in Canada a few | weeks ago in a manner that equalled {the example of France in some re- spects. France elected a president & few months ago, but he has quit because, of ill-health, and the French chamber proceeded hurriedly to elect his successor for seven years, without any conventions or public meetings, any canvassing or speech making. The premier, M. Millerand, was spotted for the place. He sought to escape. He pointed out that the high honor should go to one of two men prominent in the chambers. They immediately ran away to avoid the embarrassment of declination. The legislative opinion returned to Millerand. Reluctantly he assented, and was chosen without practically any opposition. The presidency of the republic is one of great dignity. The salary is 600,000 francs, which under normal exchange is equivalent to $120,000, with an equal sum for ex- penses. But the power in the office fs small. The president has about the same function as the king of { England or of Italy. The premier Is the head of the government in France. { MUSINGS OF THE KHAN] Ace High, There is one spot that {is always trump. Happy is he who finds the right spot, tacks it down to the solid earth and then stands on it. Mildad Duckunder became separat- ed from "Lize Jane in the vast throng in the Midway. He lost his head, of course. It was a run of losses from start to finish. iret he lost his heart to Lize Jane, then he lost 'Lize ane, thed he lost his head, then hé lost his way, then he lost his sense of pro- portion, direction, distance, time and eternity. More than that he lost flesh rapidly and several parcels. He dashed wildly hither and thither in a vain attempt to recover 'Lize Jane, 'till he attracted fhe attention of a grave, alert and capable police of- -------------- X 4 ---- TT EY Ter Photo shows for a diminished labor supply to proc' around the world before lay hold of him, but she is not al- ways that way. She either gets weary chasing you or else she makes she could rup her mind you are not worth all that trouble. Had you stayed in one spot she would have got you. You will be told that if you stay in one spot you will never see any- thing, A friend of mine shook a drop of water out of the rain trough behind the Wigwam on a sheet of paper and handed me a powerful glass. ~ In that drop of water I saw a world of ljving things -- monstrous, magni- ficient, terrible. You may live in a little sequester- ed village and Shakespeare may live on one side of yowand Julius Caesar on the other. Across the way you can see Lewis Carroll mooning about in his garden. Stonewall Jackson lives on a side street and Jesse James keeps the village store. It is not known because it is not taught that standing still will erea:e more cur'osity and cause mors $Pec- ulation (han if you moved abeut. It you stana perfectly still, neither bear nor wolf nor tiger nor python nor crocodils | wil touch you. They aie leary of you. They are suspicious of the unusual. Your friend may start £5 Tun and they will tako after him, but they won'. put a toutk to you. You have heard , the expression, "masterly inactivity," The devil's strong suit is to get you to run. So Soon as you take to your heels you are done for. Stand in one spot! If you run he will get you same as the dog catchers get their victims--with a het. He will put it all over you like a tent. Stand in one spot! There is a great deal more than you think in that old hymn, "Simply to Thy Cross I Cling." If you cling to Thy Cross your own cross will be a mere bagatelle--a toy--an ornament, The young gentleman who stands in- one spot soon becomes a conspie- uous figure and attracts the notice of every passing girl. Venomous peo- Je sometimes say unkind 'things bout the girls, that they chase ats ter the men. They don't--and it's me that knows it. But I'll tell you what they like. They just dote on a man who is a landmark, there yesterday, today and tomorrow. You will always find a bunch of girls hovering about that landmark The shepherd leaves the ninety and nine and goeth out among the sha- dowy hills Igplging for the lamb that is lost. If the little cuss would stay in one spot the shepherd could be back before bedtime. > The word "spot" is a queer kind of a word, but it is the biggest word in any dictionary! . THE KHAN The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont, ------ IN LIGHTER VEIN, Troubles of the Boy: The door closed behind an irate neighbor who had coms to complain regarding certain of Tommy's short- comings. A few moments later as he was tearfully preparing for a pre- maturely early bedrime, he said to his mother: "I wish we lived mother." His mother demanded. to know the cause of his sudden aspiration to- ward better things. . "Oh, well," he sighed, "you know the angels wouldn't be half so hard ta please as the neighbors are." In heaven, The Swiss government is to ask : COLLEGE Premier Drury Ontario College of Art, Toronto the Lenine emissary to get out of the country, A "7 OF ART CORNER-STONE officiating at 'the 'laying 'of some big telescope to ascertain what {the drop amounts to. Always Innocent Victims, (Ottawa Journal.) | Never does it occur to the addled { bomb maker that his victims are cer- tain to be, in the main, people from modest homes who work for a living, and ,who have no part in creating the economic or political conditions whicll anarchists profess to loathe and against which they would wreak violence, Just Plain Tory. (London Advertiser.) 'What we have now is an old-fash- one can support without becoming a member of the Conservative party. Those who think they can support the Government without becoming virtually members of the Conserva- tive party are deceiving themselves. We have had coalitions before in Canada, and their history has been the same as that of the combination which has now been dissolved. Be- ginning as coalitions, or, at least de- scribed as such, they have become Conservative. Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSQPHER Sripnpe CAREFUL DRIVER. I drive my car with jealous care, all laws and statutes minding, and only pause anon to swear when balky valves need grinding. I drive upon old fashioned lines, as though a speed cop fearing; I honk my horn whan danger signs before me are appear- ing. I put my hand out when I'd turn, so those behind may know it, and doubtless they remark, "Gol- dern! But he's the cautious poet!" Twelve miles an hour is what I hit, when I go forth to travel; my wheels don't fill the air with writ, or throw up chunks of gravel. A man so care- ful, you would say, must dodge all kinds of danger; but one is crippled every day, and I'm that pilgrim stranger. Day after day they bring me home, home to my weeping nieces, with compound fractures in my dome, and organs shot to pieces. The speed fiends go their crazy ways unhurt, and still go faster; the reck- less drivers spend their days un- scratched, nor know disaster. But 1, who follow all the rules, am marked for daily slaughter; and when my present poultice cools, they'll put on one that's hotter. f -------- The Open Road. Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, . Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me lead- ing wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, post- Pone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaint, libraries querulous criticisms. Strong and content I tzavel the open road. ~--Wall. Whitman. At Gensan, Korea, twenty-five per- sons were killed in a disturbance. It is clatmed that students of the Cana- dian Presbyterian mission led the rioters. The Entente powers will urge the Hungarian Government to ratify, at an early date, the Trianon peace treaty, LAID. the corner-stone of the new foned Tory Government, which no' ~~WALT MASON, || HHA TTT Ve Io =H quality Meltons, O'Brien's Irish Cheviots, etc. Coats that were intended to be sold for $42.50, $45.00, $47.50. Sale Price, $35.00. SALE RAINCOATS., Extra Special Values at $25.00 and $35.00 (BIBBY'S IEEE AACE TOEORR ERE a McCLARY'S GAS RANGES *The Finest Finished Ranges Sold in Canada» "FLORENCE AUTOMAT IC" OIL STOVES Endorsed by Good House keeping Magazine Sold ati BUNT'S King 8t. Phone 388 ) -- " Gourdier's For FURS Nuff Said NOTICE Cleveland, Hyslop and Humphrey Bicycles ----AtReduced Prices---- * Bicycle Tires and Auto Traction Tread Covers. Special prices. See window display. Carpet Cleaning and Laying. H. MILNE 272 BAGOT STREET: For the Bab "JIFFY PANTS" Pure soft rubber; absolutely water. proof. SANITARY DIAPERS Washable--stain prpot, Can be sterilized. Made in thrie sizes of change, Pure Rubber. DR. CHOWN'S DRUG STORE LT | NEWFOUNDLAND Canned Lobsters We have just received a ship. ment of these choice Lobsters. Sold only under license, and passed by the Newfoundland, Government. For one pound flat tins, price, per tin ..$1.00 Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phones 20 and 990, CHOICE MEATS --Spring Lamkh- _ --Spare Ribs, --Tenderloins, ~Pork Sausages. Choice Western Beef Daniel Hogan Phone 285 Lake Ontario Trout and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had. Cod, Dominion Fish Co, * Canada Food Board License No. 90-2348 Coal That Sits Celebrated , Scranton Coal The oaly Coal handled by Crawford Phone 9. + Foot of Nusen 84 "It's a black busines. vul we + treat you white."