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THE DAILY BRITISH SATURDAY, AFRIL 15, 1932, 6 RITISH WHIG! 6 THE MAN WHO CAN, : The world has always been in needs of men to do the things that could not be done. The need is as | great to-day as ever, When Columbus started out to sail around the globe men laughed at him and declared it c®uld not be done. Columbus did not succeed, but he proved that the'thing could be done. When Samuel Morse started to | transmit messages between distant points by means of a private wire Morse proved differently. Fifty years later Marconi showed people how to talk through the air without even the use of wires. most people declared to be impossi- ble when he used electric current to produce light and when he reproduc- ed the sound of the human voice. Motion pictures are another of the "impossibilities." Published Dally asd Semi-Weekiy by BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED JG. Eljett ....c..i.. Leman A, Guild possible to-day, await accomplish- ment. They stand as a challenge to the Ingenuity of mankind, The world needs men who can do these things. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: A Daily Bdition) HUMANENESS A LOST ART. Humanity lost much during the | great war, but that which should One year, if not paid in adv 0 | most deeply. wound its pride was the - One year, to United States } enero -------------------------- . OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES, CW omen: . "50 "Kingi'S"S, | 16m. Oo upon a time, and (hat Toronto, { time was not long prior to 1914, men Letters to the Editor are published | believed that real progress was be- rer. the actual name of the|ing made toward the abolition of writer. 4 hee teamed -- | war. They fondly flattered them- Iraached, ia vue ut the best Joh | gives that they were not as other Ma men had been in previous ages. They 'were more humane, they thought. The circulation of THE BRITISH | They devised the Hague confer- Q's authenti by the ['enice, which with full and free repre- Audit Bureau of Circulations | sentation of the nations, discussed pleasingly and with some show of | conviction rules for the mitigation of the cruelty of war. To be sure, war had never been cruel, that is, com- paratively, up to that time. War had proceeded by certain rules of honor and chivalry. There were prejudices against the use of chain-shot and agreements to grind to an edge not | more than a few inches of the tips of ret rts eset Judges and lawyers deserve credit for persistence, They keep om try- 3 Even in a democracy the plain People receive less attention than the ® good-lookers, people said it could not be done, but | Edison achieved two things that Other achievements, seemingly im- | loss of the belief in its own humane- ti significance as the reys of the spring | sunshine, Easter! What thoughts crowd into the mind as we enticipate the celebration of that sacred sea- the Christian people of the world | {and bow down: {the Lord our maker. BBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, THE RIGHT ATTITUDE: | --O come, let us worship | let us kneel before For he is ur] ; and we are the people of his | than any other, Just as spring means | pasture.-- Psalm 95: 6, 7. a wakening of the plants from their | long sleep, so does Easter bring with | it, to the human soul, the promise ot | the glorious resurrection after the | long sleep of death. A season of promise it is in very truth, for in the resurrection of the crucified ' Christ lies the very kernal of our Christian faith, and without it the whole idea of Christianity would crumble and die, The celebration of the season of Easter #s in keeping with the season | of spring. The awakening 8 i and plants symbolise the oo [the risen Lord. Never wae this so vividly brought out as during the | war, when the soldiers were holding {the battle line in 'the trenches. All winter long they looked out on deso- late wastes of brown mud. No Nn of life appeared to break the mono- | tony of the winter landscape. But | with the coming of spring came the | re-awakening of nature. From the { brown wastes of Flanders there | | sprung myriads of flowers, vivid red | poppies and pale blue cornflowers, | | bringing with them the promise of | [ beauty to come. Out of the desola- ition came the glow of Nature's | | beauty, and it came as a real symbol | | of the season of Paster. i | Out of the desolation of the death {of the human body, the season of Easter brings the promise of a glor- | | lous resurrection, of a brighter and | | happier life to come. Without this | | promise, life would lose its hope, | | and death would be a bitter and dark | | experience. But in the resurrection | | which we celebrate in this Faster | | season lies the hope which alone can ! | remove the bitterness and the sting | {of death, the promise which can | { make bereaved ones smile through | | their tears, Easter means more to { the world than any other seasof. of |W {the year, for in Easter we find the | | very heart and soul of the Christian | | faith which keebg the world from !to go on Sunday evenings can hear a | | mighty good sermen at the Evangell- | ALONG LIFES DETOUR |! BY SAM HILL Atta Bey. The world is full of trouble, Bo, You have your share and I have mine, But show your grit and smile away, For only cowards stop to whine, Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. I kin remember when Easter hats got the air on Easter Sunday instead of in January. That's That, Anyway. "Treating under prohibition is a lot less expensive," remarked Blinks. "Yes," replied Jinks, "when you in- vite a fellow in to have an ice cream | soda you dom't have to w. Y about | paying for more than one round of drinks. 'Fill 'em up again, bartender,' never is heard at the soda fountain." THE BEST Of Course If You Have Some Place To Go-- (Alma (Kan.) Enterprise) i Alma people who have no place else ; cal Church. When We Don't Need Coal. Well, if the miners thought They really had to call a strike, For a coal strike, we'll say, The summer lg the time we llke. How It Started. He had to sit up with too many "sick friends." | Sounds Like One of His, | "Do you believe they really discov- | | ered that dinosaurus in Patagonia?" "Before I answer, tell me if it was | Doc Cook who announced the discov- | ery of the thing. If he did, I'll watt | to sé& the brass tube he tied around | ts" neck.™ X hy Roads Are Paved With Good In- | tentions. { (Vails Cross Roads Cor Union Register) | Everybody down this way are pik- Mt. Gilead The cause of a lot of fires is that . fhere are not enough goods to cover . the insurance, Gentlemen who talk too much are feminded that too much 838 keeps a _ kar from climbing, A Fable: Once upon a time we found . @ match tray that had matches in it. Now you tell one. When it comes to absorbing troubles, Ireland seems to have no saturation point, . Btraight ether wasn't a perfect ge sthetic, we suppose--so they're ise it with radio concerts, 1 there's a fisherman in that Plesiosaur hunt he'll Wkely stretch lils arms in two trying to describe it. A man may be down, but he's Baver out unless he has learned to enjoy the feeling that he is a martyr, The world isn't growing better; it Just seems that way because the girls have taken off their galoshes, The army of the unemployed does- &'t Include the small-town spinster who possesses a juicy morsel of gos- Bip, We shudder to think what the bootleggers will use to make sub- stitutes when cigarettes are outlaw- ed, The little countries have an un- Basy feeling that if Europe is left to } are fakes is like investigating determine whether the feonp ¢on- : "water, ea 'The woman who dpes most of her with a can has a bus- th an "opener" is n ts are not a recent de- pmént, Long years ago the poet "There's @& divinity . that an unwritten law of the ing fraternity that or other must always "af-' me great pleasure." the hunt for that strange mon- bor in Patagonia proves a failure, hose scientists might try Voliva- ting in Zion City. 's a big demand for people think up new jokes. But the big- demand is for a way to think nthe old ones. ee enw bre are indications thet the Ob- regime in Mexico will be re- bEnised soon. As a reward for hold- on so long? ? | 4s reported coming out of a || drilled for ofl in California. suckers who invested in the stock, ; | descend sabres. And the Hague conference | Tout ing 10 She . went at it systematically to codify | g a8 promise of resurrec- all the rules safeguarding humane | HR ls renewed yearly by the Easter ments about dropping explosives | Soneecrate their lives anew te the from balloons and airships; about | ' cc Of the risen Lord ruthless destruction of property; about the rights of non-combatants; about calibre of guns and construc-* tion of missiles. There existed a pe- culiar horror against the use of pois- onous or asphyxiating gases, - In fact, this latter method of warfare was regarded as too barbarous to be con- templated by our refined civilization. To be sure, the Chinese in ancient times had employed it. They had dropped over the battlements of their walls kettles filled with burning tar and sulphur, a comparatively harm- less form of chemical warfare but regarded by the highly civilized mod- ern reader of fiction with peculiar horror, These Chinese of olden times had no claim to be called civil- ized, Then came the war. Who cared for Hague conventions? What method previously held in abhorr- ence was not seized upon if it prom- ised auything of effectiveness? What refinement of cruelty ever known in the past was not, by the exercise of modern skill and genius, raised to a degree of cruelty never dreamed of before? And the result is that in the discussions of preparedness there is now no mention of humane methods, The weight of the bombs to be dropped from the air is to be limited only by the sustaining power of the airship. Al sorts of predic- tions are made as to the possibilities of suffocating entire armies, exter- minating the crews of ships and even blotting out the Inhabitants of vast areas of an enemy's territory. In the matter of man's inhuman- ity to man, the world seems to be making rapid progress. , 80 long will the spirit of Faster wield its influ- ence of good on human life and char- acter, and will keep the light of hope burning brightly in the human heart, NATURE'S GIFTS. .... Nature took some soil and granite, and a tube of liquid glue, and she fashioned this, our planet, back a million years or two. lakes of water, strung them round with wondrous skill, so the thirsiy gent might totter to the shore and drink his fill. Wel she knew thé human being would be thirsty every day (for Dame Nature is all-seeing) as he baled his share of hay. So she filled the lakes with water and the rivers with the same, and the, dfttie streams that potter through the flelds, unknown to fame, and the sparkling rills that babble, and the ponds where lilies grow, where the Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER vorting to and fro. Nature knew that human critters must be moisten- ed well Avithin, but she filled no lakes with bitters, and she made no streams of gin. And the rain that 'helps the cotter raise a bumper crop this year--it is always made of water it is never made of beer. And the dew that shines so brightly in the morning, on the lawn, cooling off the tired world nightly, never knew a demijohn. When we're thirsty there are rivers, meres and brooks from | which to-choose, but Dame Nature ne'er delivers anything that's label- led booze, ~--WALT MASON. Our Canadian Question THE SEASON OF PROMISE. And Answer Corner Spring is aptly termed the season of promise, Following upon the dark, gloomy days of winter, with its long nights, its cold and dreary storms, and its barren trees and fields, spring brings with it the prom- 18e of renewed.life, of brightness, of growth, and of reinvigoration. Gone are the snows of winter. Gone is the ice from the harbour. In the 'woods and up on the hillsides the creeks are rippling once again, crowding their banks as they rush along, fed by the melting snows. Under the soil the plants are stir- ring and are sending forth their tiny shoots, seeking for the light and the warmth of the spring sunshine. The grass is once again waking out of its winter sleep, and Ms green verdure is taking on a refreshing colour. And the robine are back to cheer us with Q.--When and where were the first iron forges set up in Canada? A.--The first iron works in Can- ada, if not in America, were the Maurice forges, near Three Rivers, where bog iron ore was discovered in 1668 and- a company formed to develop it in 1737. Work has been continued there practically ever since. Q.~--~Who laid the foundation stone of the Houses of Parliament in Ot- tawa? \ A. --King Edward the Seventh [when Prince gf Wales, laid the foun- dation stone of the Ottawa Parlia- ment Buildings when he visited Can- ada in the early sixties. The corner stone of the new structure was laid by the Duke of Connaught, the bro- ther of King Edward. ---------- $40,000 to Kill "Hoppers. Winnipeg, April 15.--In anticipa-~ tion of a repetition of the grasshop- per plague in Manitoba this year, the Provincial department of agriculture will ask for an appropriation, by spe- cial warrant, of $40,000, . The condition of John McCormack, famous tener, 1s reported as having passed the crisis in 'New York. All engagements for the next several months have been cancelled. : Eight hundred Toronto teachers and friends left Thursday on an east- evel of paganism. | principles of warfare. It made agree- | 203501, so long will men and women i And she made | ducklings quack and gabble while ca- | } | asked Clarence Ing roads Well, it's a good time to { talk, anyway. | Fool Questions, D. asks: "Could you say an ego- |tist fs suffering from 1 trouble?" Warden, get the padded cell ready { tor this bird; he's on the way. | PP | -- Ne Joke, | "And this you'll find," Declared Old Hopps, 'Your'troubles start When your ear stops." Neo Piker. | "He doesn't owe any man a cent" | "No, but he owes plenty of them The Question of the Hour, | Have you a little radio in { home? your The Musical Pests, The bird who plays | A saxophone | By all means ought | To live alone. ] ~--Cinecinnati Enquirer. i » | | #rae one who plays A flageolet Deserves the kicks | He's sure to get | --Hastings (Neb.) Tribune { A trombonist, Folks will agree, Should practice on | The deep, blue sea | --Canton Daily News. The luke who tweeks { A mandolin | Had best be out | When I come in. | --Akron Times. Aren't We the Shrinking Vielets? | "Almost any man would be ashamed {to read in print his homest opinion | of himself" says J. H. Reed. Sure, | for no matter how great we think [we are us men all are very modest and ashamed to advertise what won | ders we are--in our own estimation." ! ---- Mean Thing. "Pa, what does verbose mean?' YA woman, son," replied Pa. Daily Seatence Sermon. It pays to dodge motor cars, but it never pays to dodge your responsibil- ity. News of the Names Club. G. B. thinks if John Kissem, of | Parsons, Mo., 1 ves up to his name his must be a great life. H H W. sends In the name of Helen Damm, of Council Bluffs, but owing to the fact that the use of pro- fanity by members is forbidden, we'll have to turn her down. . -------- Five boy companions throw their chum, Leon Dargan, into a creek at Detroit, Mich., and watched him go down the third time, . Judge Boinin, who was investigat- ing magistrate in the Landru (Blue- beard) case dropped dead in Paris on Friday. ; Ah LV 8 1 ; [OY : 3 wy |B If Your Liver is Torpid Perhaps all you require is 4 few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets. They reach the seat of your ailment and quickly is mild, gentle and ing, yet the effect is certain. "Sonie claim!" you'll BIBBY'S $18.00 OVERCOATS WE ALSO CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST $3.00 HATS THE BEST $4.50 HATS THE BEST $2.98 SHIRTS say. Well, you will find us right Kere with the goods, BIBBY'S Fine Quality Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Measure Clothes WE CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST $18.50 SUITS THE BEST $25.00 SUITS THE BEST $30.00 SUITS THE BEST $35.00 SUITS in Canada 5 THE BEST $25.00 OVERCOATs in Canada THE BEST $7.50 BOYS' SUITS THE BEST $9.50 BOYS' SUITS THE BEST $12.00 BOYS' SUITS THE BEST $15.00 BOYS' SUITS in Canada in Canada would be surprised. walk. 1€8 ever saw. COME IN AND DON'T FORGET OUR TOYLAND Our Toyland Department is progressing very rapidly. New goods are arriving daily and we have so many new numbers you KUDDLE BUNNIES--The very newest and latest bunny on the market. TALKING DOLLS--The Dolly that says "Ma, Ma," will gosto sleep and also KRAZY KARS--The newest mechanical Toy--Krazy and funniest thing the kid- Tell the children to come here and buy their Marbles. MOORE'S 206-8 WELLINGTON STREET, LOOK AROUND Your Easter Gift For that dainty personal touch that goes with an Easter gift, you will find in our Perfumes and Toilet Waters French Ivory and Stationery: just what you require, See our windows with their numerous gift sug- gestions. Dr. Chown's Drug Store 183 Princess Street. Phone 8438 "THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Wanting anyth done in fery line. ns 4 siven ae al of repairs and mew work: alse hard. wood floors of all kinds. All orders recelv. Pt attention. Shep SENET En BUCKEYE May Rod and Gun. Sportsmen and lovers of the great the May number of "Rod and Gun in Canada," which contains a wealth of attractive features. There is a short story masterpiece by the well-known fiction writer, Harry M. Moore. It is among the best Mr. Moore's facile pen has produced and those who read it will not forget it quickly. There are other stories, including "The Imp of the Trail" by F. V. Williams, and "An Angler's Dream" by I. Todd. A trio of top-notch articles will also be found. C. N. A. Ireson contributes an interesting, illustrated article "Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat," while Bonoycestie Dale's article is well up to the usual high standard of all his work. The magazine also contains the first announcement of the new photographic department, which will doubtless prove a popular feature. The Guns and Ammunition department and Fishing Notes are particularly interesting and bright, while A, Bryan Willams and J. W. Winson contribute two splendid art- feles in "Rod and Gun Notes in B.C." ern {ip to United States cities, | "Rod and Gun in Canada" is publish- eye wi Cverybody uses the sche breeders little breedegs1 ttle brea INCUBATOR © BUNT'S HARDWARE out of doors will not want to miss |, A Click rom Hotctatr Egg, to what t, 86d 58 Buck: SRR ow - big chicks King St. ed monthly by W. J. Taylor, Limited, at Woodstock, Ontario. a J. H. Coterr, North Bay, has fallen heir to an estate of $500,000 by the death of a wealthy unde. The discovery of a body, believed to be that of Joseph Racine, was found in Leamis Lake, He disap- peared in 1920, : The Dunville distillery in Ireland has lodged a claim for five million as its loss in the recent raid. 3 8 2 i Lit il 3 eZ ULaA mY PRING 1s a rather un- certain sort of season. Tho violets make an ef- fort to bloom 'neath the hurrying wheels of the coal wagon while that villian, Jack Frost, sneaks into the home that let's the fire go out. Phone your order, Crawford Scranton Coal Phone 9. Foot of Queen Bt.