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Daily British Whig (1850), 2 Nov 1920, p. 6

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_THE DAILY BRIT . ISH WHIG. ee ------ THE BRITISH WHIG| THE. PSYCHOLOGY OF VOTING. 87th YEAR. Discussing the subject of v > | from a psychological viewpdint, Dr. | Joseph Collins, the noted New York | | : neurologist, says it is true that the | | majority of its don't vate | date. or for a party--we vgle agains' {the candidate or the party we don't | {Uke. "The things that condition | man's conduct," he declares, "ara | self-interest, self-conservation, self- { preservation; in 'self,' family "and | partners are sometimes included. In- {dividually we deny that our conduct | is not shaped by altruism, by ideals, by ethics, and by religion, but w rail and inveigh against our repre- sentatives who attempt to be guided | by them. In fact, we drain the ves- | sels of our contempt and disparage- | ment to the dregs by calling our | executive idealist and theorist." Fublianed Daily and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH wWHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED teers saenas President e ADVERTISING NOVA SCOTIA. J. G. Elliott A seventy-page booklet entitled an 'TELEPHONES Business Oftice itorial Rooms A Job Office ro . SUBSORIPTION RATES (Daily Edition) E r and Managing Pe 243 | bas just been issued by the Natural 2 | Resources Intelligence Branch of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa. This is the latest of a series dealing ne Tone ig iyered in city io 3.00 with various sections of the domin- Ne year, by mail to rural offices $2.50 fon, the booklets previously issued One year, to United States $3.00 . . . ' i © (Semi-Weekly | having dealt with New Brunswick, r, by mall, cas ..$1.00} Io 1 : not paid in ag 150 the Peace River, New Manitoba, i age, United tates 1.50 | Saskatdhewan, ete. The * opening an, . i8Tes months pio sais | paragraph of the new volume cleariy OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES | a q i gd John St. Montreal, | INdicates the object of the Series M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. | when it says: "The facts in this | booklet are compiled for the use of 1 fs - only over the. actual | thie homeseeker, merchant, manufac Letters to the*Rditor are published Toronto, name of the writer, turer, capitalist and visitor. They Attached Is one of the best Job print. | PUrpose to be up-to-date, authorita- Ing offices in Canada, tive, concise." In the booki® now before us a welcome absence of ver- i biage allows space for valuable spéci- fic facts. Thug there is a list of pro- {ducts reshipped from Halifax which | could easily be manufactured in Canada; a special section on West A Indian and British Guiana trade, de- The gerat need of France is heir [ tails about dilshales, coal, limestone, tonic, Le iron, aeronautics, merchant marine, clays, salt, land prices and wages, all subjects of present interest. Sta- tistics are made palatable by an in- | teresting style and suggestive touches. Nova Scotia is crossing the threshold to great actlvities, and both to the many native born who left the land in the last generation and to the many about to sail from overseas the booklet will be a re- minder that the chances in the pro- vince by the sea now seem as bright 4 The circulation of THE BRITISH | WHIG .is authenticated by the ; ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. -- Unhappiness is occasioned by de- sire, and not by need. ------ Money is like men. The tighter it Bots, the louder it talks. -------------- The poor profiteers are begin ning | to feel the pinch of moderation, -sea should keep f the Irish ques- Hands-across-the their fingers out o tion, oting | for a'candi- | "Natural Resources of Nova Scotia," | with sixteen illustrations and a map | ---- doubtless believe in the widespread | somes men-and to. kno fallacy of the country and the day | WHY look tor trouble, sets person in this hat some arbitrary prices to suit his own fancy; jeorruptive belief. they have perhaps [ halt of their countrymen for com- | pany. agencles put the cotton price down, | they argue; why not, then, [selves force it up? The tobacco night riders obtained { | | them- ~ success because they opposed a close- ly concentrated buying power itself {suspected of belief in this fallacy |'that prices went by the will of the {buyer or seller.. But in the cotton |. market no one seriously attempts to {set prices. The figure is mathemat{~ | cally indicated by the intersection of | marginal supply and demand. To | scare the supply away from the mar- ket will in this case quite possibly prove such a difficult process and in- volve so muche 'errorism that the re- | sulting stoppage of business and credit and the loss of resources will impel the cotton region to stop fit, less there be greater loss than even 40c¢ cotton would repay. -------- | tt rehire br rs eetc renin y PUBLIC OPINION $0 00m 0 Stet The Unfortunate Rente. (London Free Press) The renter to-day is fortungte if | like the fly in amber he can stick where he has managed to alight. { | { | | eens The Problem to be Solved. (Manchester Guardian) The real problem which confronts | the cotton and almost every | trade fn the country i3 not how to | sell fewer goods at the present high | prices, but how to sell more goods at pay. 1 MUSINGS OF THE KHAN Not to Know. that knowledge > To Know or | We are told power. We are al {a little knowledge thing. If the latter premise | we should not acquire a knc {of anything unless we mastered jt | inside and out,from the ground up. The greatest ' violiaist who ever lived complained on hfs deat) bed that he was about to die just when he wag learning to play, If a little knowledge is a dang=rous thing that accounts for the fart that we are living in perilous tines. Two-thirds of the is right . ---- Wheresoever kp or three loafers &re gathered together, there is .a soviet, --_-- '""Here's how" is no longer a popu- lar toast, Everybody knows how. But where? ar In the | old days men were not afraid of work. This modern loaf is war-bred, 4 {| ------------------ There is one good thing about Paper pants. The crease will bo - Stationery. At times the tenant suspects that _ the earth is the landlord's and the ; Julnoes thereof, ---------- The chief obstacle to everlasting Peace is one nation's conviction that it can lick another. ------ Eventually 'we may be forced to - concede that woman's sphere is this one on which we live. ------------ In leap year a young man: should | earn to say "No' promptly. He who Desitates is "bossed." A SS ------ + . The tourist finds the scene of Burope's battles less alluring than the scene of Cuba's botties. ------------------ i of the world's storms are Caused by the determination of some "Ration to prey for reign, -------- Of course you understand that it 8 the gravity of the situation that makes prices come down. - The bootlegger is doing his bit to © sist prohibition. He is rapidly kill ing off the confirmed boogzers. the same reason that na- negotiate secret treaties. ; -------- ~ In the interest of economy the oldér feels compelled to hurry Wp and use his twenty-one centgsugar. ---------- {Ing a disregard for human life i Unknown and supposedly evil | 4 i I { {of my acquaintance { do, toe, th | place, and such people | places, they are never ou | hever get into the public cinder; but { | There's {don't know nothin | enough to be t tpresent system is a bull | their boots--t | that. [education so that they won't have Other | to work. | what education is for. iis that after they get an education | th | prices which the people can afford to | they i they {are | is | ground ana 50 informed tuat | but 1 Jrant to say ia conclusion that is a. dangeroys | there be things in ywledge | Whom I won't know, and if they w some things. why write ca- lamity ? ap. nb pera de : 5 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1930. . A young fellow left Gumbo about five years ago for the city. The first thing they did for hifh when they got him thers was to put him wise." They told him that it was absolutely necessary that he should be 'wise' tp certain things. Last | week they fook him out to Mimico | .and that muffled thumping sound You hear in the stilly right is our | friends bumping about in a padded cell. I admit that he didn't know much when he Jeft Gumbo, but, by hedges, he knew more than = he knows now ! | Knowledge is power, is it ? All! right, then, did you ' ever come across the Man Who Knows It All ? ie: is a greater curse to the com- a bootlegger, a whiskey = E = = == | -- = = =e = --_-- == --_-- _ = = = = -- _ = ra sate wes Fe -- | "BIBBY'S MEN'S AND BOYS" WEAR STORES SOMETHING DOING IN OUR OVERCOAT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT munity than = corn cure artist or a -- detective, a cheap chauffeur.. The nicest folks 6 are those who anything !! Yes, they ey know how to behave and they keep their keep their tof a job. inconspicuous and they eye like a there be thousands of and this world would be a place i live in but for them. Orphie Sevenpiper. She '. She just knows he most exquisité and & in Gumbo. She don't know nothin', just the same. as a fox, bob-o-link, a chipmunk or a tree toad don't know nothin'. If I caught anyone coming around here to put this girl "wise," I would ua- dertake to wise them ! Knowledge is power. That's ad- mitted. Dose our present system of education tend to knowledge ? Our i y good sys- educating people out of here's no doubt about Too many people go in for an don't know De a --_ = = --_-- ---- == themselves = 2 = They are them; [ rotten adorable hin _-- = == = = --_-- _ _-- --] = == --_-- as == Ee] == == = = --~-- = = -- = _ ---- tem for g £ They think that that is The trouble won't work ! Not that educa- unfits anyone for work, But seem to think that work is dig. That is the reason there more intelligent men in the Hodcarriers' Union, Bullock's Cor- ners, than on the Board of Educa- tion. I infra am treading on dangerous All our celebrated and $14.50 values coloring. Your choice while th $8.75 per pair ~ Overcoat Special Don't miss seeing the range of Overcoats, Ulsterettes, and Ulsters we are offering. $35.00 All new models, beautifully tailored garments, in all. the newest colorings. Sizes 34 to 42. S [S ~~ Shoe Sale Just Wright Shoes. Regular $12.50 ; all sizes; newest models; new ey last fo y \ r f I will pull up right now, . is world 1 don't = == -- = i -- = Ee a -- = = = _ _-- = = -- = -- | -- = = 7 = = ---- = = = = -- -- -- = want) to know and there be men === venture through my gates I will put the dog on them ! [BIBBY'S| i FI LETT EE rrr ter. rn re The Khan. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. | EVERLASTIC READY | ROOFING DE re -_ Belleville Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER THE IDOL, Once I was a public idol, Yor a fort- night and a day; like a bridegroom to | | the bridal I went on my gorgeous ! way, and fair maidens went before | me, strewing flowers along the road, | and a halo hovered o'er me when MADE BY THE BARRETT <0, IN 1 PLY, 2 PL Y, 3 PLY We have an exceptionally fine price on this line. BUNT'S KING ST. PHONE 388. Sweet Cider 60 cents per gallon Jas. REDDEN & vo. HARDWARE. Phones 20 and 990, sat in my ahode. But the idols al- | ways stumble, being fixed with feet | of clay, and, forgetting to be humble, | I threw public love away. On the | ninth day of October, roses hit me, | in my walks; on the tenth the people, | sober, hanted me a bunch of rocks. | For the wealth of adulation made | me feel I was a king, made me think | in all the nation I was sure the big- | gest thing. And in every place I land- | ed T was swollen up with pride, and my dome of thought expanded till my hat split up the side: And the | people got the willies, poor erratic, | changeful hicks, and they passed me | no more. lilies, but bombarded me | with bricks. If again I am an ido] | I'll be wiser, I allow; and no cheap, | inflated pride'll strip the laurels from my brow. For the idols woukldn"t tumble, they'd be cherished to the | end, if they'd just be meek "and humble as adown the world they | --WALT MASON. | teamsters, as is its summer beauty. | chauffeurs, enginecrs, etc, have ' : only a' little knowledge, and not Se In Tull 'of 'su-canq Serge garage LOOSE MORALS. know about as much ABORt mocha His Honor Judge Kelly in dismiss- ics as my dog knows about astron- ing the grand jury at Simcoe on |Omy. He bays at the moon, but he Tuesday afternoon took occasion to | Jays Bot ihe leks: ariention to refer to the serious crime wave There are a number, of people as- sweeping over the country, indicat- | serting themselves just' now who are and telling us that there are a great a lack of proper respect for Womau- [R647 things that oow rp Rod hood. The moral tone of the OM" | flooding the land with literature munity, he feared, was on the down and with pictures of these dreadful grade, and he placed his finger Ja There be men and women the real cause--the loosening up of) Vio We Gon rn id dow pend the home authority, the lack of Par [have ty haow. These people say ental control and callous indifference | things we don't need to hear ,they of parents. No truer words, remarks do' things we don't need to see, they the Lindsay Post, were uttered by | Yih ines 8 don't deed bo Lou, the judge when he declared that which will teach that we don't need home was the foundation of society. 10 know auyihing at 8} about their He thought that the schools were not | vile habits, ses, » Cus- sufficiently careful to inculcate : a | on Or Janitations, There Do anij better moral tone, and referred with duce us to dreadful things and evident displeasure to the fact that | creatures of whose very existence at a recent criminal trial where evi-| We had hitherto been most happily dence of a repulsive nature was Rua are: preaching the virtue of given the teacher of a private schoo! Ignorance ? I certainly am! . It 1s had not only permitted the girls toa calamity to be acquainted with attend, but had accompanied them. dg g His" Lordship felt thers was a lack of proper supervision over children and young people regarding their ate tepdance at a certain class of moving 'picture show: The remedy for the existing crime wave could not be left for the courts and authorities to furnish alone, but the masses must help to improve the moral tone if any advance was to be made. His lordship was not a bit too severe. in his strictures. He might have gone farther and condemned the immod- est garbs worn by some women now- adays, as well as the modern dances, whieh are undoubtedly a strong fac- | tor in promoting disrespect for mor- {ality and chastity. Conversation on | fableats which wére formerly stamp- {ed as immoral, but now considered | "quite: proper," -also tend to weaken [the morals of the people. We are | in a fast age. €rime and-sia fof all kinds is running riot, some For Colds, Pain, L Stiff- hess, Rheumatism, Sot, '8nd for Headache, Neuralgia, Tooth- _ After all, man is master of hot which is actually licensed. The OWR destiny, There fs no law com- {sword of heaven is not in haste to ening him to take the jit out of | smite, nor yet doth Unger. garage, the world for its impudence 1 fusing to give it advice in this of trouble. Tey pa Flow has brought little faction to Germany. She mus: turn over 275,000 tons of ship- @s compensation. : -- 'The League of Nations is the only : t wheréwith the sufferings the world can be relieved. That United States will enter the ue in its owa good time, and in own way, is almost a foregone elusion., -- -------------------- 3 An authority states that it costs 14,000 to produce # proficient tele- ¥ girl in New York. Providing Same ratio of costs Prevails ia igston, just think-of the great th gathered within the walls of te tins COTTON NIGHT RIDING. The lawless proceedings of the tobacco country night riders in the southern United States won in great part their object. The tobacco be- Came more or less a matter of what Is eglled collective bargaining, The man who could raise and sell with profit great quantities at a low price Was terrorized into growing only the quantity per acre and selling at the' price per pound that offered profit to less industrious farmers gr. those cultivating poorer fafms, Now comes an extension of the night-riding idea to the southern cotton belt. Those gain their point, as the tobacco night riders did. The disturbers wish that cotton should sell at 40c a pound, the ap- proximate war level, in spite of the changed economic conditions. They have no clearer idea of the determin. local exchange. bead ants that set the price level. 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Our own personal attemntiom is given to all orders. #0 MONTREAL STREET + Two Doors From King Edward Theatre In daily communication with Mont- real and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Dominion, Provincial and Muniel pal Bonds for sale. | 281 KING STREET | Phones = 568 & 108 "The mandate for Armenia has been offered to Italy, which is dis- posed to accept it. Guards, Basket Feneln 8. Flower! bord -g, Wire 'Work of all fact. .ed by: kinds, many. | ' PARTRIDGE & sox, €2 Kiang Street West. { Phose 350. saw, | The Easiest | House Plants For winter blossoraing in the house there are no flowers more easily grown than Duteh Bulbs. ~Faperwhite Narcissis, .. =itSman Hyacinths. _ --Freesia, ~Chinese Lilies. These, if placed in a bowl or Jardinier of water, being lace with a few peb 10880m in a few weeks, an the house with fragrance. ~-HYACINTHS DAFFODILS ¢ TR -- Planted now' wiil be in bloom for Christmas Our isulbs for eut-door are ex. .Septionally fine this year, Come early and get the choice, Dr. Chown's Drug Store 188 Princess St. Phone 343, Coal That Suits The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rallroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite The only Coal handled by Crawford Phone 9. Foot. of meen Bt. "It's a black busines. Oui we treat you white." oy Ne

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