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* THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. \ : \ THURSUAY, DECEMBER 30, 1920, i Daily and Semi-Weekly by iTISH wie FUBLISHING CO, LIMIT .... President iter and ging Director TELEPHONES Office ssnve Guild ...... | . BUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) hy Jelivered in 5 sity seas 36.00 y aid in Fe Ey mall to rural "offices r, to United Sta Semi- Weekly" Editi tion) £ and three months pro rata. "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES St. John St, Montreal. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. Toronto. 's to the Editor a published over the actual n of the hed is one h of the best job print. g of Bors 1a Sanaad. » circulation of THE BRITISH [IG is authenticated by the ABC Ee Andit Bureau of Circulations. N prmalcy will also mean a return $m the limousine to the wheelbar- ple' who scorn flithy lucre are 4 willing to accept it as a mat- of principle. ill, it must be confessed that the pt daring styles modestly conceal brains, if any. ing the sun out of Sunday is t reform movement in the | States, me girls smile to reveal their il nature, and some to reveal F good teeth. price of raw material has len, and now there is nothing to ID prices up except a raw deal. L New Jersey child Has a birth- resembling a collection plate. JZeformer he will make! is in the market for harvest- ievidently desiring to expedite the reaping what she has sowed. be only thing that prevents a and reasonable settlement ot is thé old fellow's stub -------------- may wish to swat the man nks he is important, but you to drown the man who thinks ------ ownership of books has abolished in Russia. Bolshe- i thrives where ignorance pre- and nowhere else. normal married woman is one thinks' her husband could easily more time from the office to, p with the house work. -- Gharles M. Schwab says the pres- : bust, .Nump 18 "healthy," [be it.!8, for him, Steel prices 4 come down much, Dobbin was slow, bul when mn him with oats yon knew ouldn't quit cold on a dreary seven miles from home. long last an Irish Home Rule las received the'royal assent and @ law. May it be the beginning end of Ireland's troubles. a 6 meanest thief we know of is Jne who broke into a church at 8, Ga., and stole the kiddies" presents from the tree. inn et trieminn. three nilllion acrés of land tn Han west have béen taken irned men. This 1s a move- .$1,260,000,000, or 6 amount of such Drees says he is pleased Backus deal. Well, that who are sstisfied-- the Dackus. The Ontario Reeds to take a few lés- conservation. Lloyd George demands and navy estimates of ath' be reduced one-half. ! ates amounted to $410,- | ° Britain. THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED | The investigation of conditions in Ireland by the self-appointed "Com- mittee of One Hundred" was as an- ticipated, and as ppinted out by the British embassy, an attempt to cam- ouflage the fssue. It is already ap- parent that the real purpose of the investigation is to make out a case for the Sinn Feiners and to create propaganda for the enemies of the British government. The first day's evidence was entirely confined to the testimony of those who have taken a leading part in the Sinn Fein ac- tivities in Ireland, who were indir- ectly, at least, responsible for some of the terrorism which has been casting a gloom over the Emerald Isle, and hag been turning the once peaceful and prospewpus country in- to a shambles. What, then, can be expected from a committes which Is investigating only one side of the case? The British Embassy undoubtedly acted wisely in refusing to recognize this committee and its doings. When it is composed of rabid anti. British elements, and of "Friends of 901 the Republic," it was only natural .00 | to assume that the final result would in no way be friendly to Great For the government to have sent evid and wit to [ tem of co-operation was a splendid thing and it is worth all the atten- tion that the farmer can give to it by the results in actual cash returns alone.- Nobody has any quarrel with the farmer for choosing any legiti- mate methods he sees fit in-conduct- ing his business affairs. The greater his success the better for the country at large. It 1s just possible. that the farmers have not pursued the origi- pal aim, of the department of agri- culture, in co-operation in business as far as they should have done, that politics has swept them out of the true current to the only goal worth striving for, vis, success in their par- ticular vocation. If political activity is only founded upon distrust and suspicion and the denial of the legi- timate rights of fellow citizens, up- on what grounds can any person, or class, pursuing such a course, hope fo secure the confidence of any body of people? The lesson of co-operation must, in order to be a blessing, be applied to provincial and national affairs; and it is to be hoped that rural Ontario, and every other rural section, may speedily come to the conclusion that it is better to live in barmony and co-operation with the rest of the people thanto try to us- urp the governments and®ule as an autocratic minority. such an enquiry would have been to recognize it to a certain extent, and this would have greatly increased its power for harm. As it is, the com- mission is working along, tremen- dously impressed with its own im- portance, hearing only the accounts {of reprisals by those who inspired the "atrocities. Whatever finding it may reach will have litle if any effect on the public mind, for no committee can find out the truth un- less the case is presented from every possible angle. In any event, it is hard to see what the instigator of this commit- tee Lopes to gain by such an investi- gatien. It is true, of course. that he w!il gain for himself ana his maga: ne a certain amount of cheap advertising.. Probably that is Lis chief aim. But even after the commi:- tee has finished its work, wil] the situation in Ireland be helned at all by what it has dome? Vill a set- tlement of this great problem be any nearer? Will the way to a real peace in Ireland he found? All thesé ques '.ns riist_be answered in the negative. The commitie cannot expect that tho British government is going to pay any attention to its findings. If the members have any such 'hopes they are sure to have a rude awakening. For any body of citizens of the United States to pre- some that they can sit in judgment on any question which concerns only Great Britian and Ireland is an un- warrantable intrusiom into a pro- vince over which they have no juris- diction and in which they cannot even act in an advisory capacity. So these gentlemen who compose the '*ommittee had better realize now as well as later on that they are simply wasting their time and spend- ing good money to eerve no useful purpose, WHO MADE THE U. F. 0.2? « Strange as it may seem, the Unit- ed Farmers of Ontario, now so wide- ly known as a political organisation, did not, in the first instance, have its beginning among the farmers themselves as might be supposed. It was the creation of the Ontario de- partment of agriculture during the regime of the late premier, Sir Wil- liam Hearst. The department was re- "| presented in nearly every county of the province by an official known as {he local representative. It was the duty of this official, who was usually a graduate of the Ontario Agricultus« ral College, Guelph, to render assist ance and advice to the farmers in his locality, He was a sort of pivot about which all their activities re volved. He conducted school fairs annually and addressed gatherings in all of the townships. Qrghniza- tions were formed with the idea of co-operation along economic lines. These became known as co-operative clubs, and when the membership was large enough a charter was isdued. The purchase and marketing of goods by co-operative methods. was the sole object in view, and the ste- cess that came to the clubs that at- tended strictly to business justified the movement, Over 'and above all, the local representative emphasized the importance of quality production, and his technical knowledge was uti- lized to the fullest extent. It was right here that polities be- came injected {ito the farmers as a class. The possibilities of swinging the farmers' votes were fot 10st to designing individuals with a propen- ity for talking. The club meetings offered opportunities for iatiod, and disappointment or dissal in a business deal, made the m cager listeners for the spell- hey who Invariably pomed as farmers themselves, who had solved all the problems of trade and politics and whose insight Into government at- fairs showed that the Grits and Tor- fes were rascals not to be trusted. To all of this, the innocent official, r BITS OF BY-PLAY - By LUKE McLUKE Copyright, 1920, by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Jaws, A married man must held his breath, Ang listen to much strife; He doesn't fear the jaws of death, He fears the jaws of life. Thea It Happened! - "I read a have AINE | book to-day, ald (the Cheerful ot. s "What was it?" asked the Wise Guy. "A treatise on the care of the scalp," replied the Cheerful Idiot. Ouch! The Dentist is a careful man, Your confidence he'd gain; And, if you have false teeth he can Extract them without pain. wamt' "Do you belleve in a higher power?' asked the Fat Man. "I sure do," replied the Thin Man. "I married her. If You Don't Relieve It, Ask Her! The Pantalette is out of ay The Petticoat has man nockers: So when you hear this. do not smile, She is now wearing "Pettibockers." He, Hum! It Is with deep regret that we learn that the saloon formerly operated by Otto Tank, on Roosevelt Avenue, De- troit, has gone out of business. Paw Knows Everything. Willie--Paw, what 1s ger? "Paw---Any man who has to cross an auto-infested street nowadays, my son. , an Artful "Little" is Tight Read this small rhyme before you go, Then bet on it and wifi your bets; Man" wants but little here below, Ana little is Just wha what he 'gets. Editors Se See ted 'The aie headed: "How To Pre- pare Salven For Show Purposes" was park be run on the Farm and ns de But the make-u page devoted to Well, Well! Talking about voters. A. Votegetter and Annie Votéright both voted in Pre- c'nét F. Ward 19, in C'ncinnati, at the last election. o. man got it on the 'omen and Fashions, ta Boy! , Edison, a age befog our brain, and you fan flat; Invent for us & barkiess dog; Also a songless cat. ~~Luke McLuke. you've regulated man, Anis ren feline-canine life, ud 'Wo pray you to see If you can Invent a speechless wile, ~=Newark Advocate, -- And, Edison, you've filled the land With things to make folks laugh; But now my neighbors all demand A soundiess phonograph. anton (Oho) News. -- Some men Ask 2) 'he. streets, some stron on country roads. ut Khas we started to tell you was that Parke alker {s business manager of the Ft. Smith ¢Ark.) Southwest Ameri. nd Noth The Registrar teh! the Names Is Names Club wants to know the pres- out nt sddrets of a Donkey, whe 3 I ve at 204 Sorman avenue, Se e, N. rr Way, Margot! We find this in the much-discus sed Autonlography just published by Mrs. Asquith. wife of the former Prime Min- = ister of England: "Sir Willaim Harcourt told me that | women should be played with & like | fish: only in the one case you angle to make them rise. 'and in the other to make them fall" Gotterdammerung' * The former Kaiser demands: that the "people of Germany. endow the Hohenzoiletn Family rit 50,000,000 marks annuall The Kalser must have'an idea thas the Germans are a lot of easy marks. Wise Girl When she was young, we understand, Her cheek bloomed like the rose; But now her cheeks are pailid, and The bloom is on her nose. --Luke McLuke That wag the casé until, you see, She saw she wag a freak, So then he bought some rouge, and The Mloom is on her cheek. --Hastings (Neb.) Tribune, Our. Dally Special. Some Men Stick to Their Promises ~--And Some Merly Gum Them Up. Luke McLuke Says Daughter, who is ny nothing but a Poodle, has to have a Vacuum Clean- er to lighten her toil But Mother had to use a Broom when she was raising eight kids. At that, an orphan Is better off than a child who has the kind of fathér who uses his home as a grouching place. The man who never tells 4 wife a He is like the Lom! High Admiral of the Swiss navy. There ain't no such animal. ere Was a time when a woman kept the kind of dog that protected the house. But nowadays her daugh- ES rm BIBBY'S Most Emphatic Price Shattering -- Warm bargains for cold days Cw? ter keeps the kind of poodle that has to be locked up in the houss to keep peoples from stealing the dog. Soft-hearted men are good fellows. But you'll notice that they are kept busy paying rent and interest to hard- headed men. The fundamental principle of hap- piness is to get the accent qn the first syllable of the adjective and not! on the second syllable, A struggling author has to turn out | goed work. Only a successful author | «an afford to turn odt poor work. Many a4 man has stretched the truth only to have it fly back and sting him 'he man who used to be a steady drinker can't get over the habit of ex- pecting two fifteen-cent articles for a quarter. } 1 La WILSON 64 HARS OLD Latest photo of odrow Wilson, President of the United States, who SSisbraten his 64th birthday on Dec i ------------ MEN'S SOCKS Dark grey, white toe and heel; Ls wool. 4%i. 3 pairs for $1.00 ~ MEN'S SOCKS Penman's Pure Wool; Heath- er knit. 75c. per pair. 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