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i i | A » i Fe now prove to be the wrecker of that 6 - THE DA ILY BRITISH: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1020. WHIG. WHIG | CONSERVING POWER. | The white clouds of steam which jcurl up from the countless roofs of business buildings on a clear day In | winter may be said | symbol of the daily waste of all sorts BRITISH 87th YEAR. | of valuable power which goes on in| | the face of all the attempts at eco- nomy. ; A telegram from Paris in the other day's news tells of the | sald to be successful, of a Fgench {scientist named Colardean, described by him before the French Academy of Sciences, "We waste too much energy," was his text; and if what must be the characterization of this country? the 'scandalous waste" of the free winds of heaven and of the power latent in the water forced by pres- sure from the kitchen tap. In his own house he has fitted to his sup- ply pipe 4 high-speed water turbine, giving directly to a dynamo with a little battery of accumulators, and when the taps are turned on the mi- riature generating station works and the batteries accumulate the power. In country places he would use the wind to pump water to the necessary 0 height and draw the wind energy through the water into his storage plant. The inventor claims much for his process, and nobody will be in- clined to pooh-pooh the possibility of £0 plausible a representation, hed Dally and Semi-Weekly by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) year, delivered in city . year, if paid in advance . 33.00 'ear, Dy mail to rural offices $2.50 n States . 0 3 ly Edition) 8 Je 8ix mail, cash "OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal ohn " M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bidg., Toronto, e 1 pro rata. * Letters to the Editor are published By the ectual name of the \ SHOULD DIVORCE BE ABOLISHED? MnAtisshed is os Pra West Job print. Judge, A. J. Pearson, of Cleveland, a. Ohio, has made a statement in which he advocates the absolute denial of divorces, regardless of what the al- leged grounds for separation might | be. His reason for the statement | seems reasonable for he says: "When a man who has failed to qualify as a good husband receives a divorce, it permits him to fool some other woman, and if the fault lies with the woman it permits her to fool some unsuspecting man. The result is that another divorce case will be filed in the courts in a short time. If no divorces were granted, children would receive better care. if the parents remarry, the children, if there are any, seldom get as good care or attention as before." There is a great deal of truth in what the judge says. During recent years, divorces have become far too numerous, and marriage vows are re- garded all too lightly. The modern tendency seems to be for hasty and reckless marriages which terminate very abruptly in the divorce. court, and there is assuredly a need for some check upon this state of affairs. How serious the divorce problem has become in the country to the south can be gathered from the stat- istics issued in Wayne County, Michi- gan, for last week, During the week eighty-seven marriage licenses were issued, but during the same period one hundred divorce suits were start- ed. A significant thing is that mobt of the applicants for divorce are childless, which leads" the judge of Wayne county to remark that; in his opinion, children do more to bind parents together than anything else. Whatever may be the cause of this great increase in divorces, it is evi- dent that the problem is a serious one. Even in Canada divorces are much more numerous now than ever before, and yet, in this country, the divorce laws are far more stringent. Whether divorce should be abolish= ed, as Judge Pearson suggests, is a question on which there would be a ' Is- the goddess of free love called hevenus? » ------ As a rule, when men bury tho hat- "chet they go home and sharpen the nee, There are no fire-proof discovers that the diamond is te. -- The field a young man sows to d oats is usually washed away by a bridal wave. ---- When the farmers strike, there will be a sympathetic strike by seve- _ ral million stomachs. 'Ferguson's timber Hmit conces- sions and. Drury's Backus conces- VEIBps dre not so different after all, Bess ~ .The steady drop of water 'wears 'away the hardest stone, and the steady drop in prices makes it hard to float a loan. essen A mere layman can't understand 'why efficiency experts don't get into business for themselves and mono- . polize the world. ! UR if Hold-ups are numerous in every town and city these days. But they if don't hold any terror for the mar- } ried man; he's used to 'em, a ---------- There is a landlord in town who 'will not rent to a family with child- | ren. The only thing he believes in Taising is the rent.--Ogdensburg Ad- " Pish talk to one another," says Dr. Alexander Graham. Bell. Probably gust repeating the conversation they over] d about "the big one that 89 away," or remarking on the wet- Dein of the bait used by the anglers, | Centuries ago there prevailed in India & beliet that at long intervals Wisdom returned to the earth and "Was revealed to mankind through a person, The world to-day is ¥ipe for another such return of Wis- dom, ing number of divorces provides food for serious thought, for it is dealing most sacred and important institu- tion of modern civilization. eps | IS IT AS BAD AS THIS? The dance hall, the automobile and the moving picture, declared fast bringing his country face to = ------ | Alexander the Great was the 'wrecker of the slowly maturing pos- "sibilities ot a once freeand tranquil 'Hellenized world. Will Constantine gayety which he traces to these three means of self-gratification and which be sees sapping and undermining the moral ideas of the nation, began ten years ago and not after the war, in the dance hall craze. The first ef- fects of this evil were séen, not in the men, but in the young girls, and the dean ays that parents were not courageous enough to take a definite stand against the increasing gayety; and hence the result. The public dance hall has had a distinctly harmful effect on young girls and is at the bottom of many infractions of the moralities on the part of men. according to the Yale University official. In the moving picture theatre, he says, the whole' nation is not only spending its spare time but time that is not spare. The moving picture is producing asgeneration of loafers and the time daily spent in moving piet- vre theatres would, if employed in labor, solve and resolve the present eecondmic crisis, declares this student of modern life.' This general criti- cism of the movies is too sweeping, and will not find many supporters, especially in Canada where the mov- ing picture theatre affords for the most part wholesome 'amusement. The automobile in the hands of the young man is another serious 'cala- mity. It not only wastes timé and be- gets indifference to-life in the speed mania but it has a definite and very real bearing on the sex problem, for greater Greece that has been evolved © a8 a result of the great war? ko 1 ---- Ww the mind grapples with a "grea and intrieate problem, it makes advances, it secures its positions by step, with but little realiza- ion of the gains it has made, unl enly, with an effect of abrupt il- ination, it realizes its victory.-- LG. Wells. : ------------------ That this is a materialistic age is wn by the fact that colleges which merly sent their finest young men the divinity schools now send em to the schools of law, medicine d business instead. In the United i alone, as 4 result, there are ,000 churches without pastors. I -------------------------------- great war the nations . Spent some $350,000,000,000 in or- er to kill 4,705,665 men in battle, to wo over 10,000,000, to consign 10,000,000 to vile prison . where most of them" dled, and indirectly contribute to the death : h privation and suffering 'of told /millions of old men, women children. Verily, as Shekespeare "What fools we mortals be!" devil himself must' grim: when ontemplates the fiendishnehs of d. » : Ty to constitute a | invention, | recently | waste be charged against the French, | the far looser methods prevailing in | | the use of the proportional represen- | M. Colardean's plan is too utilize | great. division of opinion. The grow- a blow at the home, which is the Dean Jones, of Yale University, are face with a crisis of hunger and star- vation. The nation-wide epidemic of cy it has | more than any other agen rade the public dance hall the great | has become, | it moral menace that Dean Jones holds. display, in unscrupulous profiteering, cynical disregard of suffering, a de- sire to get rich quick and a reluct- ance to do any genuine work, to meet it. The, parents of the pres- ent generation of young men and women are too old ways. EDUCATE THE ELECTORS. The tangle which resulted from | tation system of voting in the Win- nipeg civic elections is not very en- {eouraging to those who have been {advocating the general adoption of {this scheme. When the votes came to be counted it was found that the number of spoiled ballots amounted | to about twenty-five per cent. of the | | total vote, a far bigger percentage | than was every heard of under the lold system. In this contest for the | mayoralty alone 2,077 ballots were | spoiled, and the successful candi- | date, Edward Parnell, had a ma- jority of about one thousand over {his opponent, H. J. Farmer. It is | impossible to tell what the result {might have been had these 2,077 [votes counted. In the aldermanic contest over 9,000 ballots | spoiled, quite sufficient to have | changed the entire result of the elec- | tion. Thus the opponents of the sys- {tem of voting | representation have good cause for condemning it. | The cause of this debacle, how- | ever, did not lie with the system, | which has been tried afd has proven | very successful in many elections. | The fault lay in the failure of the authorities to fully educate the elec- | tors on the working of the system. | Under this system, instead of using la cross to denote the candidate for | whom the elector wishes to record | nis vote, numbers are used, The choice, the figure "2 the second, the figure "3" the third, and so on. Every ballot marked by a eross is a spoiled ballot. That is the rea- son why so many were spoiled din Winnipeg. They were marked by crosses, The voters in this case simply' did not understand the sys- tem. It had not been made suffi- ciently clear fo them. They had not been thoroughly educated in the workings of the new method of bal loting. Thus the election was very unsatisfactory. Proportional representation like every other new system. It must have a fair trial before it can prove its worth. The electors must be thoroughly educated in the method which is adopted under the system. We have on various occasions in the past expressed our belief in propor- tional representation, and the result «a ° is is not a good system. Once the glec- tors understand it, there will be no trouble, and it will give fairer and more equitable representation to all classes of the electorate. : Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER Srapmpe USEFUL REGRETS. ; I'm old and badly on the blink; I have no brains with which to think, no teeth with which to eat; my head is bald, my ears are blind, and rheu- matiz, the compound kind, is sizzling in my feet. I often gnash my tooth- less jaws, and wring my hands, with ample cause, regretting past mis- takes; I once was quite a husky lad, who didn't need a liver pad, and knew no 'pains or aches. I didn't guard my precious health, which was a better thing than wealth, a better thing than fame; 1 jogged along agith heedless fools and violated all the rules, and now I'm stiff and lame. 1 trace each ailment to its source, to conduct foolish, vain and coarse, in days when I was young: becpuse of breaks made long ago I now have corns on every toe, a spavin on each lung. I see the young folks go their way, and turn the night time into day, where sports chase by in streams; they paint the town three shades of red when they should safely be in bed, and dreaming' moral dreams. And when they're old they'll pay the bill; they'll look back from life's western hill, regretting conduct wrong; and there would be no bills to pay had they but walked the nar- Tow way when they were young and strong. --WALT MASON. . Luke McLuke Says. A girl is never quite sure that she is homely until everybody else has been sure. of it for a long time. When two men have it in for each other they are not satisfied until they have it out. A man likes to know that his wife is all his. But he'd hate to have her act like one possessed. Many a man will pretend that he is looking for your Interest. when it is your Principal he is after. ¢p The average woman hes mors peo- Dle on her Hating List than she has on her list of Friends. When a woman thinks that she is Intellectual she gets so that she Just hates to look inate. ; It hag just ut gotten so that a man. can't do a day's work for his Wages without acting like he is doing the Boss a big favor. There is something awfully crook- ed about the man who imagines that all other men are crooks. { ; Many a Tailor has to start a suit 0 order to get the money fo suit he has finished. 9? Sy foram Once in a while every wife says to every husband: "Why don't You help i the house? Other men hav 0." This epidemic of gayety which i= | manifesting itself in extreme love of | cannot | be extirpated by education, and the | task is too great for the home now | to mend their | were | by * proportional figure '1 is used to denote the first | {in Winnipeg does not mean that it | 3 (times at night we are cold FF treet te Pte i MUSINGS OF THE KHAR] 3 -- Once a Year. There is g strea s ir which is a mighty { four hours once a | of the time it is an cant riva- {let, a "crick," although t popula- tion on its banks ever respectfully speak of it as the ° It winds its way among beat hills and | through vast meadow incaleu- { lable richness, but save a place to water cattle and fill tanks for the thre don't see country. - It costs more than it is worth to bridge it, for the bridges must be long and { high as .it is a mighty river once a | year, Once a year it gets into the same | class as the Ganges and the Missis- | sippi and the Panube and is a mose tremendous stream than the Shan- {non or the Thames. It is as noisy {and formidable as Niagara --for | twenty-four hours; as majestic as | the St. Lawrence for one day; and then she fizzles out and fizzles out till you could roll up your pants and wade/across her most anywhere. There is'something barbaric about all this. This river is a savage. | That's the way the savages do. They have a great Sun dance or Potlatch at stated periods and they are a mighty and potent people rressed in | priceless blankets and beaded buck | skins and then they fizzle out and { slink back into the wilderness where | they are neither useful nor terrible. This stream reminds me a good deal of a boatrding-house where I | used to hang out. It was called the | Palace. It appears to have been the earthly home of a bishop in prehis- | toric times. On Sundays we had | great eats--good enough for a royal { duke. The next day they were nof 80 gorgeous. The following day they were on the bum; on Wednesdays | they were somethin' flerce. . Thurs- | days there was a long-felt want and nothing to fill it with, on Fridays | grim famine raised her hidjus front | and on Saturdays we had to smuggle | kippered herring, sardines, erackers land cheese and bologna into the | house or die. Then on Sunday she broke out with meals which would | make the King Edward envious {and fill the Royal Connaught with | despair, Our landlady boasted that | she kept a great table. She surely did--on Sundays. | This here river 1 was telling you about is just like that boarding- | { house, with the difference that the | river blowout is an. annual affair. For the rest of the year it goes slithering along here and there un- til it finally spills into Lake Erie. | A few days. after that it turns a great turbine which "furnishes all the little towns and cities along that river's banks with light, power and heat. If all the power, wasted by | this fool river in one tremendous day were distributed over the other three hundred and sixty-four it | would be a river to some purpose. That stream reminds me of the man | who occasionally shows people what | he could do if he liked and then | doesn't do it. When it is bank full | on a spring day and roaring through | the world like a real river I have | {the same respect and admiration for | {it that I have for a"drunken bully at a fall fair. Both of them are ri- | diculous. Not that they are not | dangerous sometimes. This river | | will carry away a bridge occasional- | {ly and ye bully will pull the lunch ! | counter out by the roots, but they | will both fizzle out before morning. | his province ior All the rest OE of IT TT { When .a boy I heard that a party of | young people had been drowned in | that river and when I came to see | the stream I could not believe it | possible that anyone could drown in | that insignificant chain of puddles. | We have wasted our forests. We | have no more stove wood. Some- | in bed. | | There fs enough heat going to waste | mm that erratic ditch to keep us as warm as the proverbial pie--and | furnish the heat to keep us in hot | meals till the dog days come round again. | In a great town in Ontario they have a bridge nearly a quarter of | a mile long and a few days ago the! river flowing beneath it was about | ten paces wide and ten inches deep. | Ycu couldn't drown a hatful of kit- | tens in it. For one terrible day next spring if | all the people of Ontario were to | fall into it they would never get out! { ~The Khan. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. ------ CRISP COMMENT. Bud Jones says only bad women and good jelly shimmie.-- Louisville | Post, It's getting too cold now to live in a flat where the heat is furnished.-- Toledo Blade. It's easy to call a girl dear in these times, when everything else is. Louisville Post. A cold wave is upon us, and heav- en is again relied upon to protect the working girl's chest.--Kansas City tar. Supreme court's ruling on the seiz- Are law would have wider interest if | more folks had anything left to seize.--Saginaw, News Courier. Squirrel hats are: to be popular this season, according to fashion au- thorities. This is probably because nuts are more plentiful than ever be- fore.--Cadillac News. . Sinn Fein is to carry its war into England, the famous English hedges having probably attracted attention as beautiful things to hide behind. -- Toronto Telegram. * At the end of the school semester approaches, the student body becomes convinced that the faculty is putting into effect Joffre's famous words, "They shall not pass." -- Sioux City Journal. A baker is a candidate for the may- oralty in Winnipeg. As he'is reput- ed to have plenty of "dough" and is a "good mixer" his friends are con- fident of his Success.-- Vancouver Province. 5 A Detroiter was robbed of $60, by jndia as he stood on the outside of restaurant. 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