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6 ' THE BRITISH WHIG| 80TH YEAR. INVESTMENT "PROSPECTS." Thousands of men and women throughout this country time to time receive through the mails l- from | terature asking them to buy certain | articles; to su | vest in secu scribe to funds or In- Their names are | secured through canvasses made hv lists Of pers | pects" for | list are known by those who employ i wh men and women who make it a busi. | contained In the alluring and flatter- ness to prepare in each» community who are "good pros. | s sort of thing. These and somu- them as "aucker I | times prove so because persons ad- dressed 'fall for" the proposiflons ing literature sent them. Just at this season of the year when semi-annual dividends are paid Published Daily avd Semi-Weekly by | THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING | CO, LIMITED 4. G. Elliott ..... er haves President | Seman A. Gulld .,.... Editor and Managing-Director | TELEPHONE | Private Exchan;e, connecting all departments SyBjcRIbTION RATES: Dally Edition) One year, in city .... 43 would not be sought. No matter how i plausible the explanation why artl- | and holiday gratuities are distribut- ed, the malls are filled with prospec- tuses of every imaginable kind, and, money in hand, temptation is great. But one thing is certain: money in| a | hand is worth more than the article | { and must spend the first four weeks' | increase for silver insignia which he | is then entitled to wear. or securities offered, else monev cles are offered so cheaply, or money a6| fact remains that the price asked ex- | ceeds the value of the articles or sa | curity offered. One year, 10 United States OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES! ¥, Calder, 22 St, John 5t., Moutrenl| ¥. WW, Thompson ....100 Klug St. w.| Toronto, i Letters to the kiditor are published SBiy over the actusl nume of the Svriter, | tee ee ce---------------- ee. se ~ Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. %he circuiation of THE BHATIsH WHIG is authenticated by tlie ABU Audit Bureau of Circulations NI ta A at NNN NNN Kemal doesn't need to rattle the | sabre so long as he can rattle the Allies. When the small boy starts early for the pantry it isn't to avoid the | Jam. 'When 'money talks' there are lots | of people who see cents in what it] says. Only five more days until we get our annual contributioh of bedroom 'slippers, The only real difference is that one is called a subsidy and the other a tart, 1Mhe. rain falls on the just because 'the unjust has carried off his um- brella, wy @ - Correct thie 3¢ntence: "Thirty days for reckless driving." It doesn't need correction. In due time we shall wish a Merry Christmas to everybody except those who call it Xmas. The beet time to buy an umbrella i8 when it is dry, as they always go Wp when it rains, Be patient with the merchants and glerks at Christmas time and don't do your shopping surly. A doctor' wife should be happy. He will listen patiently to a descrip- | "tion of her symptoms. The cars have distinctive names, but pedestrians are listed under the general head of "traffic." The war wasn't entirely useless. It taught a lot of persons of noble line- Age to earn their living, The Germans really are superior. They are the first to dodge, their debts by making more money, A Christmas "goose: the turkey that thought he was safe because he escaped death at Thanksgiving time. "What's honor?" asked Jones. "That's easy, Any woman who sits behind another woman can tell what's on her in two minutes." It always works that way. And you will notice that Wilhllm fre- "quently leaves home now that he is married. Lives of great men all remind us . We can do great stunts as well, And departing leave behind us . Antedotes we didn't tell, ---------------- That chap Who says women may -be '8xpected to make greater strides in future hasn't noticed the new ------------ 'Another sad little failure is the husband's eflor: nct to appear in- terested when his wife retails the lat. fst scandal in their set. December Twentieth, Bright and gay, Five days more And Christmas Day. fe " without making a noise have found thém about as sof: average jury. "Any successful new party must be ned of 4 per cent. discontent, 7 cent. idea and 89 per cent, cam- | ha published if everybody, edited It | would be something wonderful, but {| nothing | interest: in any subject except ons | dreamed of a generation ago and he 'cessity compelled "many are Deing taught to look to the fontribwtions, . so, sellers wou'd | employ the advertising columns of | newspapers or In other open, straightforward ways lay their pro-| positions before all the people. If this were not NEWSPAPER EDITING. The sort of newspaper that would that anybody would sub- scribe for. The newspaper business is perhaps the most competitive of any in existence. People who make up newspapers must have the mass of the people in mind every moment. No newspaper can live by catering to a chosen few There is not in enough bsuiness to newspapers designed especially for what are slangily called the high- brows. The high-brows are a vague class, but are commonly supposed to be the type of citizens who take no any community support a large concerning things that would be dis- cussed in a fine arts convention or a symposium of the higher clergy. Nj dally newspaper made to fit a clier® tele of Intellectuals or near intellec- tuals could subsist on what the In- tellectuals would be willing to pay. A new author made himself un- popular some time ago by saying that as far as he had observed most of the criticisms of his book had come from that class of readers whe never buy books, but are keen for borrowing them and picking them > pieces. It might be sald of some of those who are severest in thelr con- demnation of the daily press that they do not hava te pay its bills nor do they contribute greatly to its support. TOO MUCH PATERNALISM. In an addresg before Simcoe Coun- ty Educational 'Association, Dr. John Waugh raised a Question that has a wider bearing than he gave to it at the time. The school child of to-day, the chief Inspector said, has avail- able advantages such as were un- asked if the child of the present, without the incessant urge of pover- ty, has not too easy a time and it this fact of incentive and of compul- sory self-reliance does not offset in a meggsure the value of the easy faci- lities given for securing an educa- tion, Speaking of this question, the Farmers' Sun says that one wou!d scarcely care to go back to condi- tions such as existed in all stages ot life at the time when Dr. Waugh was himself a public school pup! But the discipline of povirty, with no charitable funds for the relief of the same, certainly had its advan- tages. Industry, frugality, self-den- ial and other great virtues wera developed in pupils whom stern ne- to make every hour at school count. Self-reliance independence of character and ie source were developed in the elders when all were poor and when thera were no minimum wage boards, un+ employment doles or other organiz- ed, wholesale benevolences. _ As has been sald, no one would de- sire to-see a return to' conditions sich as existed even fifty years ago and still less to such as the pioneers of what is now Old Ontario endured. But it is at least an open question it the swing #8 not too much in the other direction _to-day--if we ars not creating a system under which state for that which they should do for themselves, if we are not making things so easy that thrift are discouraged and the spiri: of self-help weakened. SALVATION ARMY PAY. Cornets and tamborines, trom- | After an officer | Years as a captain he is eligible for 44} 13 needed in promotion projects, the | what he produces, | the mission of its members to pré- | duce industry® and | bones and drums and voices of the Salvation Army will continue mak- ing music and the gentle, earnest workers will continue their rounds to the homes of sorrow and sickness, despite what to ordinary mortals would seem justification for discopr- agement If hot'a strike. Some times runced that the p he officers in Canada was to 1 $1 each a week if single or week if married. During tha heir salaries were ifcres the advancing costs { lu now that prices are declin ing, these faithful workers are being { obliged to revert to their old time standards o/ pay. The lowest grade in the arr that of cadét, who board and lodging for his wo single woman who is a lieutenant re ceives §11 and a single man $12 a week, { 2» womar [s married she forfeits 'yer pay, and a man is n ot | receiv | permitted to marry until he is above the rank of llev'enant. The rate pt | pay Is increased about §1 a week for | each grade advanced and furnished | are provided for al] officers. has served seven quarters cintment as ah ensign. He re- ceives fifty cents more in this grade The maxim that a worker receives however, holds good for the Salvation Army. It is happiness, to relieve distress and to teach simple good- ness, and their reward i5 not the human THZ DAILY BRIT SH BOLE 1LOUGT 101 T0+AY HOW TO TRUST ' ATER Is this lady feeding her properly? The answer will be found among to-day's want ads. Copyright, 1922, Associated Editors | canary ~~ 4 pay they receive but the joy of per- forming their mission. The major- ity of workers are not recruits, but sons and daughters of Salvation Army people who have learned that service to other is the path to cor tentment. |" ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL Not a Doost For the Water Wagon. The ralny weather gets my goat, Wet days I just despise; That is one case, I will admit, Where I'm strong for the drys. Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. Btyles in hats change so fast these days the ladies no longer bother using hatpins to hold 'em because they have to take 'em off before they gel a chance to get them anchored. Now Left To Their Fate. Blinks--They the Lord took care of fools and drunks. Jinks--That was before fools and drunks began to drive motor cars. used to say Things We Always Have Wanted to Know. Where do ladies who smoke scratch their matches? Gems From Guide Book to Success. The phantom Fear on mischief bent, Into the house of wisdom went, When his works would enter- t* in, k Abjectly L'ear crept out again. ~J. E. F. none Mean Drute. "Cancer must come from talking too much," remarked Mr. Grouch. "Why so?' asked his wife. "Well, doctors declare it is twice as common in women as in men," he re- plied. ------ What Prohibition Has Done. It used to be easy to drink much. Now It is drink, ~too hard to get much to Tuk! Eatin' Quail in Ohio Is Forbld- den by Law, (Marriage License in Pittsburg Ga- zette-Times) John O. Quaill--West View. Frances L. Eaton--Bellevue. Foolishness. "A saw has teeth," Sald Mister Drake; "But I am sure They never ache." "A stalk of corn lias ears." said Bing, "Rut [ know it Can't hear a thing" Fool Questions. F. D. 8. asks: "Why 1s it that people are so slow picking up hints when you drop them? We've often won- dered about that ourselves. That's Easier To Do. She ~Can you tell fortunes cards? . He--No, but I lost one at them. The Modest Man at His Best. No matter how modest a man may think he is he is absolutely convinced the woman who gets him will draw the Lgiges' prize In the matrimonial lottery.--Sam Hill In Cincinnati En- quirer. 2 A man may be modest, as modest as can he. the modestest man of the earth. but he wiénts no mistake on the part of his girl, she must ap- praise him at his full worth: she must belleve him the greatest man in the world, a regular hero, as it were; indeed she.must be mindful of the great honor he confers by bestowing his name upon her'--Tom Denning. -- Daily Sentence Sermon. They may speak well of the dead, but never of a dead one. with ---- 7 News of the Names Club. Lotta Paint, of Cambridge, Informs us while she has that kind of a name she uses very Jittle of it. § Otto Schute, of Louisville, is a gun- | smith. AH right; say it. -- -- At the final meeting of Galt Chy Council all the civic departments n GANANOQUE | Dec. 19.--Miss Maynie Brennan, Miss Rebecca Calow, Miss Joe Ford, | Miss Hayware, Miss Annie Shiels, | Mrs. Stanley Shiels, Mrs, F. H. | Lutz and Miss Kate McCarney were among hose who spent the day in| Kingston. The hockey club composed largely | of puplss of the high school, is giv- | «ng a dance in the Canoe Club Fri- day evening next in honor of Miss Leggett, who has accepted a posi- fon on the staff of the London coll- | egiate. 4 Dr. Gordon, who has been pract- iging here for the past couple o:| sears, Is moving to Smith' Falls. ! One of ihe officials of the Gan-| anoque Golf and Country Club, had a letter to-day from Nicol Thomp- son, Hamiiton, advising that he and bis brother Frank had schedulea a day next July to play an exhibition match-at «Gananoque on the. Gan-| anoque Links. This will take place | on the formal opening of the new sreens, probably around the 12.h oui | 13th July. The details of the match have noi veen arranged, but it is expected that | frank Thompson and L. 8S. Barr, | manager of the Bank of Toronew | here, wil. oppose the two Pros. Nicol | Thompson, and Wyman Mullin, the; Gananoque pro. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Byers wil spend the holiday season in New | York city, and will leave on Thurs- day next, joining Mr. and Mrs. James Byers and Betty at Toronto. Miss Rhoda Byers is already in New York studying music, Miss Helen Vase, Miss Mar:e it- tiejohn, and Frank Brown are home| from Ottawa normal school for the) holidays. | On Thursday afternoon, Father | Kehoe will give the pupils of the Catholic schools a banquet in the | Lyceum. Mrs. Lutz will supervise, | and be assined Ly the ladies of the | congregation. | The Badminton Club Is growing in | popularity, several married ladies | having joined within the past few | days. / WwHIG. 5 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1929. - 0 STORE OPEN TO-NIGHT Kingston's One Price Clothing Store. BIBBY"S Buy A Man's Gift In "A Man's Store BUYING MADE EASY AT _. BIBBY'S MOORE'S TOYLAND THE TOY STORE OF KINGSTON OPEN EVERY EVENING. El, --------t] It will pay you to Shop Early. It is worth while shop- ping in the morning. PA se, a I Rn We might suggest a few of the thousands of Toys in our store :-- Our Canadian Question | And Answer Corner - | Q.--How many visits did Jacques! Cartier make to Canada, and when? | A.--Jacques Cartier paid three | visits to Canada, in 1534, his first | landing on Canadian soil; in 1535! when he reached the site of Mont- | real and in 1540. | Q.--What has been the growth ot | the British Empire in a century? A.--The area of the British Em- | pire has grown, in a century, from | two million to nearly thirteen mill- | fon square miles, equal to one-| quarter of the land surface of the | globe. Of this area, the British | Isles contain only 100,000 square miles, or less than half the size of the province of Ontario. Dolls, full jointed. Ma-Ma Dolls. Dolls Carriages. Dolls Dresses. Dolls Furniture. Story Books. Tree Decorations. Dishes and Tea Sets. Kindergarten Sets. Teddy Bears. M00 "tutng | Two Cars BITUMINOUS Egg and Stove Size Particularly adapted for Hot Air Furnaces and Quebec Heaters. Pr.ce showed surplusses to the credit. Tha fire loss was reported as $5,600 or 42% cents per capita. » "No foreign entanglemdn:s" is the | verdict given Presidem arding by! Repubiican leaders relative to the! president's plans to settle European | economic and financial troubles During a plague in Norwas But of two million people, bu: threes hundred thousand survived. | 15.00 2 Crawford - COAL Foot of Q een Se Phone 9. J - Palm, Florida, says. Plush Animals. Tricycles. Electric Trains. Sleighs. Paints. Picture and Building Blocks. Meccano and Erector Sets. ES OYLAND BUNT'S HARDWARE McCLARY'S "TECUMSEH RANGE" The Finest Range McClary's Ever Made. Come and see it. King St. -- Dr. J. O. Macdonald 327 BARRIE ST, (Near Princess) --_-- OFFICE WOTURS: 2-4, 7-830 p.m. "PHONE 1710. a George Fifield, Toronto feather. | weight, defeated Roy Chisholm, | maritime featherweight | in ten rounds at Toronto Tuesdiy ! night, - champion. A ship was found riding the Gulf " Stream with all sail set but minus the érew, "a despatch from West | We are headquarters for Tom Smith's Christmas Crackers + and Christmas Stockings All sizes. All prices. - Jas. REDDEN & Co. "The House of Satisfaction" Phones 20 and 990. Games of all kinds. Hockey Skates and Sticks. Drums. Automobiles. Kiddie Kars. Mouth Organs, Mechanical Toys by: the thousand. A A ce es ost my NN tt tm Christmas Choice You can save time and be sure of finding something ap- propriate if you shop here. French Ivory--beautiful sets or in separate pieces. Travelling Rolls. Shaving Sets. Stationery---exceptional valk ues. Thermos Bottles and Kits. GIFTS FOR NURSES Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 843 at a att et Survivors from the tug Reliance were landed o¢ Agaw Bay and are &§o ing over land to the Soe. . ES --------