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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930. ' ee ------------ other fellow get more than his share | too much to say that the English it. on the deal. i cei less from La-|Berve.that they have got. of-the profit on Reformation rece ved ue ; : This world is full of chaos to-day ther than from the Sgcrel reading [2 {because 'not only man, bit BAfions the scripture over the whole country. jhave had the condeit taken out of Wyeclif's purpose in translating the them. It's a risky thing~to do. If er anyone Im sight who has got half the THE BRITISH WHIG : 87th YEAR. The principal "employers of To- ronto are not employing fifty per 'Published Dally and Semi-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO,, LIMITED 4. "G. Eltott Leman A. Guild ..... 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It wasn't so much an election in the United States as a landslide. ---------- It sounds unreasonable, but one who sows wild oats usually raises cain. - With skirts as ghigh 'as they are, silk stockings are almost a kneeces- sity. And yet Lenine is simply the logi- cal result of the reformer having his own way. It seems logical enough that a Strike should affect. Bngland's . A nickle will still buy a feeling of immunity when the collection plate eomes by. A --------------------------, The Red should remember that 'the meek shall "inherit" the earth _ =not steal it, 'Don't be a tightwad. When the Joll is called up yonder it won's be 8 bank roy. . 'What we need is less appeal to the common people and more appeal fo common sense. Er -------------- Money talks because it realizes that the one to whom it talks is ready to take notes, | A Bucker is one who thinks a 'gapitalist possessed of a good thing eager to share it with the public. » The greater part of the world's frouble was started by the man who invented the art of talking. = One man in the United States' r to-day, will find an editor's very tame and irksome. ---- © Oddly enough, the car drivers Who are not going anywhere al- Appear in & hurry to get there. When things begin to look des- e Lenine simply puts on his ting cap and 'his butcher's few more weeks of this, and will no longer be ashamed to for a dollar's worth of -some- . ll is a place inhabited perman- tly by the wicked and temporarily y the man who marries a woman "her money. 8 old-fashioned diplomat thinks ist one who hesitates (0 sac- a few thousand troops for a concession, © ce a gentleman loved good ey, fast horses and beautiful , Now one talks of bootleg, b and chickens, -, Vhe: 8 man becomes famous chap who once gave him a job . the lawn claims the gredit g him. will be two minutes of com- silence all over the Brtiish : on Armistice Day in honor he herolc desd. a's little experiment has ac- d one good. It has shown tin 0{the Liberal o00(issue and dodge his party's plat- 00 form." The days of thé party paper cent. of their usual number of em- ployees, is the stitement of A. M. Hunter, secretary of the service bu- reau of the Y.M.C.A. The advice to "Keep away from Toronto," fis, therefore, one to be heeded by those seeking employment. ------ Justice Kelly is inclined to divide the responsibility for the low morsl tone of the province between the bome, the school and the movies, But isn't the home primarily respon- sible™ If fathers and mothers, and especially mothers, are paying too much attention to public meetings, amusements, etc., are they not to blame ? . eg THE MODERN SPIRIT. The. Brantford Expositor, which "Ihas always been classified as a Liberal paper, compliments Premier Meighen on his having made it clear where he stands on the tariff ques- tion, and declares that the "clear- cut utterances are in pleasurable contrast with the obvious efforts of leader to befog the as a subservient party organ are about over in this country, is the comment of the Woodstock, Ont, Sentinel-Review, another Liberal paper of unquestioned standing. These papers' outspoken criticism of the party leader is significant as an indication of the modern spirit in journalism. PRIVILEGED - CRITICISM. A judgment has just been handed down by the Supreme Court at Sara- toga, N.Y., that upholds the free- dom of the press, and which will be of interest on this side of the bor- der. The Saratogan, a newspaper published in the above mentioned city, was the defendent in an action for libel brought by Edward T. Car- roll, superintendent of police of Saratoga. A The verdict of the jury was in favor of the newspapers. In this action the principle that a news- paper is privileged to criticize public officials who fail to perform their duties was involved. The verdict constituted a step forward toward the freedom of the. press in such cases. issue the libel action brought by the official charged with negligence, the Saratogan proved its case. The jury took the right and proper vief of the matter and rendered a Just verdict that fis upheld by public opinion and will be approved by all who desi¥e to have the press un- trammelled, in criticism of public officials: who are derelict in their duty toward their employers, the people. HOW MONEY GROWS. The will of Benjamin Franklin, who died in 1700, contained a be- quest of $5,000 to the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts, "as 2 mark of respect for having ap- bointed" him "as agent in England at the handsome'salary of $10,000 yearly." The will also provided that the money should be put out at tive per cent. interest for 100 years. At the end of that time 31-131 of the accumulated money should be re- invested at five per cent. for an- other hundred years. The remainder becomes available for public bene- fits. At the expiration of the sec- ond century the whole "amount becomes so. When the first century ended, Jan. 1st, 1891, the $5,000 had grown to $431,343, That amount is equally diyistble by 131 and is the reason for the peculiar fraction of division which Franklin made a part of the bequest. He had worked out' the amount the gift would be worth at thet time. In accordance with the provisions of the will, the sum was divided. The reinvested. amount was $102,083. The city and state received the re- mainder which amounted to $329. 300. This sum was set aside for public works. On Jan. 1st, ©1920, the interest-bearing fund had reach- ed. $281,195. By the end of the century, that is, in 1991, it will have reached approximately '$6,0007000. The gift was insignificant when it was made, Had the state and the city used it then, neither would have realized more than a remembrance from it. But Franklin saw the pos- 'sibilities of the accumulated inter- est and when the end of second century arrives the state 'and city will have a fund worth while. - THE BIBLE IN EDUCATION. In a thoughtful gddress before the Alumni Conference a distinguished essayist pointed out the extraordin- ary way in which this book has been preserved to the world and how in every country that had heard the preaching of Christian missionaries the demand was Immediately created for its translation into the vernacu- lar and for teachers to explain its meaning. Another speaker pointed 'out that the New Testament was es- sentially a missionary book written by a missionary church as a mission- ary record of the life and, saying of its Founder and of the destiny of that church under the guidance of His spirit. ! Wherever this book has gone it has ereated or kept alive that spirit of free enquiry which is the only safe- Suard of trey igstitutions. It i. not By defending to a successful | scriptures into the people's tongue was not only that they might be en- couraged to read the Bible but that they might learn to read, in order to read it. Tennyson compares Wyclif's | village of Lutherworth to Bethlehem on the ground that as the Christ, the Word of God, was born in Bethle- | hem, the word of Jife was born again, for Englishmen was reborn, in Luth- erworth, A copy of Wyclif's Bible sold as high as $200 and a load of hay was given for the use of a New Testament one hour a day. Similar rates can easily be obtained for the same book to-day in 'some of the, to us, unknown languages of the world. = The great classic of the English Bible is of ¢ourse the King James version published in 1605. The influ- ence of this version on the literary, moral and religious life of the-times since then is everywhere apparent. But that influence needs to be con- stantly strengthened, and only people who believe in the common folk are likely to do it. The church must do it; the press is continually doing it. There is scarcely an editorial page of any first-class newspaper which does not make reference to it, often by direct quotations; the first-class magazines are devoting much space to a consideration of the moral pha- ses of the scripture. The school can help. The emphasis here will natural- ly be its literary value though it will not overlook its moral value as well, President Murray Butler is of the opinion that an acquaintance with the Bible is indispensable to the pro- per understanding of English litera- ture. But the great agency which will magnify the influence of the Bible is unquestionably the home. The person who wiH foster acquaintance with the Bible is preeminently the parent. By the church which will accentuate its religious value, by the press which will accent its moral power, by the school which will spread its literary influence, and by the home which will realize all three, the Bible will gain its rightful place of power in the life of today and tomorrow. MUSINGS OF THE KHAN Amend the Criminal Code. A new, or rather a very old, of- fence should be added to the code. You frequently seq and hear people going about saying: "I am going to take the conceit out of So-and-So," or "I'm going to take him down a peg." This should be made a criminal offence. Bootlegging is a mere baga- telle compared with it, Burglary and arson and the like injure society in a ble way compared to it. « nere's Belden's two-year-old bull, for instance. They exhibited him at the great Canadian National 'Exhibi- tion the other day and what is the consequence? He got the conceit taken out of him. He went to the show valued at seven thousand dol- lars, I wouldn't give the Beldens that many cents 'for him now. He is not the same bull. Alas! he will never be the same bull again. They up"n took the conceit out of him, and to-day he isn't worth his salt. 1 Question whether he would be good to eat. His steaks would be flan- nelly and his soup wonpld have no kick Jn it. Only a few weeks ago | he was the pride, as well as the ter- ror, of the whole community--to-day a yearling calf ehased him out ot | FAVORABLE OUTLOOK the yard. Yesterday he would have | stood against the world--to-day mone 80 poor to do him reverence, You are doubtless famfliar with the prayer of the Scotchman who implored the Almighty to "gie us 'a gude conceit in oorsels," Scotty knew what he was talking about and whom he was talking to When the Lord stakes a man with plenty of conceit you ought to let 'him 'alone. I say. There may be some excuse for digging out your tonsils or your appendix, but tak- ing the conceit out of you is a pretty risky business, In spite of what some people say prohibition has been a blessing in many ways. We are beginning to te see things as they are. In those terrible old bar-foom days the tem- perance lecturers told us that there would positively be no poorhouses only for drink, and we believed them. They assured us that no ome would 80 crazy if he left the accursed stuff alone, that there would be no need for lunatic asylums only for the rum tiend--and we believed that, too. To- day they have put up the standing room sign in the asylums and you bave to send in your application six months ahead and have a big pull politically if you want to get into the poorhouse---'deed you can't get in &'tall unless you belong to the Masons or the OddteMers, or the La- dies' Aid or the Independent Order ot the Daughters of 'the Clay Belt. We are finding out that Old Booze Was blamed for a whole lot of trouble of which he was perfectly in- 'nocent. And now, lo, and behold, we are finding out the true reasons. : These unhappy wretches had had the conceit taken out of them! This is the hideous, in fact it is the nak- ed, truth. Permit me to digress for a momeht. 'We hear a lot about the human form divine. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, but the more the most of us are covered up the better we look! : The average human form divine will stand more drapery. I have seen so many skin- ny shanks, so many knock-knees and bowlegged misses that I am filled with gioom and apprehension for the future, : As I was saying, these folks had the it taken out of them, and hence their present deplorable state. We never bested the Germans till we took the comceit out of them, and then they quit cold. The Druryites had conceit enough to think that they could run this countfy, and they are doing it too, and they will keep on doing it till they get the conceit the United States had 'the. conceit taken out of 'her to-morrow where would we be Wt? I repeat, where would WE be at? There is just one thing that would save us from be- ing dragged down in the maelstrom and that is the fact that we never had any conceit in ourselves and con- ditions would be normal. 1 used to wonder why we- didn't have more conceit in ourselves than we had-- and now I know. We will be the salvation of this | continent one of these days! THE KHAN, The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. mermtmgonen Tr Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER Sntnge HR THE CONSUMER . I'm.the Ultimate Consumer, and my eyes are full of.teats, for I've carried all the burdens of the world, a thousand years, and I'm doomed to pack those burdens till this planet is No more, 50 my eyes are full of sor- row, and my heart is sick and sore. I've' a right to groan and grumble and deplore my many ills, for I'm paying all the taxes, and I'm footing all the bills; to defray the world's ex- penses I am always sweating blood; I'm the Ultimate Consumer, and my given name is' Mud. Oh, the farmer Bets a rake-off when he sells a load of wheat, and the miller, white and dusty, gets a rake-off and repeat, and the jobber gets a rake-off when he sells a sack of flour, and the dealer gets a rake-off, or you'd see him look- ing sour; and the Ultimate Consum- er; when he buys a dinky sack, has to pay these divers rake-offs, while pink pains run up his back. And they tax the woolens maker, who in com- merce cuts a swath, and he hands along the taxes to the gent who buys his cloth, and this gent just hands the taxes to the fellow lower down, till they reach the busy tailor in our little country town. And the Ulti- mate Consumer pays the taxes in the end, when he buys a suit of raiment with a stylish Grecian Bend. I'm the Ultimate Consumer, and | sound a plaintive note; I'm the guy who pays the fiddler, I'm. the universal goat. ~=WALT MASON, a , | | PUBLIC OPINION | And Makes Fewer Hunters, (St. Paul Pioneer Press) This is the season when the prac- tice of dragging a gun through a bar- bad-wire fence saves the lives of some game. | | ------ From Steer to Store. (Miami, Okla, Record-Herald) High price of cowhides as an alibi AU Sn BIBBY"S ~The Big Store With Little Prices SOMETHING DOING SALE \ See Bibby's $1.50 Soft Shirts Sizes 14 to 161. See Bibby's | $1.50 ---- Brown Suede Gloves (Silk Lined) Sizes 74, 8, 81. See Bibby's $10 and $12 Velour Hats at $6.75 Going Opt of Shoes - $12.50 and $14.50 J tot Wight Shoe or $8.75 No. | Men and Young Men's ercoats $27.50 No. 2 "See Bibby's Special - $35.00 Overcoats : "Ulsterettes, Men's and Young Men's See Bibby's Men's and Young Men's Suits $24.75 See Bibby's Hand Tailored Suits at $45.00 Lape -- EE BIBBY"S EOI AAR - ] EVERLASTIC READY MADE BY THE BARRETT CO. IN 1 PLY, 2 PLY, § PLY We have an exceptionally fine price on this HARDWARE. ROOFING BUNT'S line, KING ST. PHONE '388. of cost of footwear isn't accepted by a Marlin (Tex.) cattleman. He sold a 51-pound hide for $5.16 and an hour later paid $18 for a pair ot,| shoes. i Work and Pay, (Listowe] Banner) During the past few days a number | of men from the local factories have been laid off work. | It looks like a serious situation, | coming as it does, with winter ap- proaching and coal not bought for a | song. | But it may not be quite as serious | as it looks. In the case of one of the factories shortage of work isn't | given as the cause, but the laying off | of two or three men is reported to | be a warning to others.that the man- agement expect & 'day's work for a | day's pay---something to which sthey | are entitled. EE FOR HYDRO ENERGY | Indications oh an Improved Labor Su ply at the Cobait Mines. | Cobalt, Nov. 6.--~--Comparatively ! wet weather prevails. in this part of Hudson and Electric Seal Coats Compare Price and Quality. Gourdier's || BROCK STREET, . Belleville Sweet Cider 60 cents per gallon Jas: REDDEN & co. Phones 20 and 990, : ums Price $4,000. pleasant location of Quinte; over class soil under 8ood buildings. FARMS FOR SALE 119 acres, 8 mil Kingston, on a leadifig road, new 'barn, with stables 30 by 40 feet--small dwelling, nearly new; about 45 acres now under cultivation; about 30 acres of valuable wood, chiefly maple. 85 acres on the Bath Road; on the Bay 80 acres first cultivation; Price $6500. We have also a large list ot farms of all sizes and prices, T. J..Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance KINGSTON, Ont. Phone 1035w or 17973. from Northern Ontario. Water is gradu- tall of considerable soft snow and a little rain the seepage into the water- courses is steadily adding to the fav- orable outlook in the prospects of- a better supply of Hydro electricity from the plants on the Montreal river. With indications of an improved labor supply the electric energy is a leading factor in . determining the course and extent of the expected im- petus in the silver mining industry. This\also holds good in the gold min- ing digtricts in Northern Ontario. ally rising in the lakes and rivers. Te RAE i ane sing the {aversble sem inch, and as a consequence of the tH EGCG COAL STOVE COAL NUT COAL Pea Coal .. PHONE 155. ALL SALES FOR CASH, Phone orders 0.0.D, SOWARDS COAL CO. SA 40s 00s n ais Carrying 50c. extra. Accompanying the indications of $16.50 per ton seseee...$16.50 per ton sereesean... $16.50 perton seve. 1915.00 per ton 'Sea Salmon, Ne. an adequate supply of labor in Co- balt and the more favorable outlook in this respect in Porcupine, are re- ports which tell of a marked improve- ment in efficiency, all of which points to a steady improving in economic condition as affecting the precious metal mines of this country. JAMES S. ROBINSON 378 Ragot Street & Robiason Bros' Old Stand Phone Wheat Chilean Crop. Santiago, Chile, Nov. 6.--The Chil- | ean wheat yield for 1920 was 605,- 000 toms, an increase of 53,000 tons over 1919, it was announced today. he acreage sown was 1230.000, ome \consu ion will be 578, tons, it is tari. ag WA (InctFporated) Next General Meeting FRIDAY, NOV. 5th, 1920. . : easily York, Broker Injured. v, 8. Fencing, Guards, Bas bore borg" ho? Wire Work of al FARTRmmGN Rn The Easiest House Plants RE Jie owes sth ouse re © ra) than Duteh Bulbs. ~Paperiyhite Narcissus. Roman Hintintas, ~ 2 ese, r laced bowl or Th in in a 1 jor of Later being, kept in lace with a few pebbl few weeks, rance. kets, Flower rz. zze| Coal That Suits The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Celebrated Scranton Coal es, will and All Lake Ontario Trout | and Whitefish, dock, Halibut and ~ Cod. Dominion Fish Co, Canada Food Board License The only Coal handled by Fresh Had- N taken out of them. But I don't see Long : ~George M. Reid, $0 Yours 0) , & brokem of Lon- don, Onmt., is in Roosevelt hospital suffering from concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull, received when he was struck Planted now will be in bloom for Bulbs for out-door are ex- 'ceptionally fine this year. Come early and get the choles. Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phone 348. Crawford | Phone 9. Poot of uses St. : "It's a black business duit we treat you white." 3