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6 H WHIG WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1923 THE BRITISH -WHIG | 90TH YEAR, ! thelr tellow-labourers Published Daily and Semi-Weekiy br THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED . President . Editer and ing=Director PHONE connecting all J Gi. Elllott an A. Guild ERR Exe m SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Dally Edition) year, in city as year, it paid in adva: year, by mail to ru year, to United States . $3.00 (Semi-Weekly Edition) year, by mail, cash | 81.00 year, If not paid In advance $1.30 year, to United States a 1.30 { REPRESENTATIVES: ¥ John St, Montreal ..100 Kiog St. W, romte, Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual mame of the writer. Attached is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the AB ( Audit Burean of Circulations Silence ones envy the brass talkers. golden, but is > As a general thing, tho house is the one who can he disagreeable boss of ti the mes Perhaps WRnis to ness, who know Adam was here first, and when ne feit peeved at Eve he probably call-| ed her a darned alien.' Christian nations are have done the most to develop our * eivilization and our padlocks, +10 ones who A closet is a piace where yon keep the things you are ashamed to wear | and too stingy to give away. i The world is so full of a number | of things that make it hard for us| to attend to cur own business, The man who said ignorance is bliss never was caught five miles from town with an empty gas tank. ! You can recognize the approach to Kasy Street by the little piles of dis- carded friends along the wary. The bachelor has some advantages but he has no children to epank when he has a bad day at the office. The next time we decide to have & war, let's shop around a bit and see if. we can't find a cheaper one. An efficient wife is one who can get ber work done in time to take AR nap or have a mice cry in the af-| . ternoon i The world is ! ning that forgex- ing one's enemie business policy as well as good Christian doc- trine is good } Correct X said tie me for you go along.' "Mamma," | has invited to have this senten "B I'd flapper; a ride and like "It she lives in @ small town and is Broken and bent with toil, she Ia} called a dutiful wife Another awkward thing about) automobiling is that you can't tell! which way the pedestrian is going | when vou flush him | Canada might well take pride. The book of eiiquette doesn't men- thon it, but it is considered good forh to return the book of etiquette you borrow. : | As we contemplate the worries of | the Alles, it occurs to us that the ful Germans may have lost the on purpose. ~ Man is the only creature endowed with sufficient reasoning power to tonvince himself that his pet vice isn't hurting him any. » When France finishes driving the German mark to the bottom, perhaps can be induced to do something about out price marks, ba . It isn't possible, sometimes, to tell from the way a woman dresses just how near bankruptey her husband | fs, and then again sometimes it is. mmr ss -- i It is alleged that there are mod- | #rn writers who are excelling Dick- sons, Scott and Thackeray, but since! 18 an author who says it perheps | testimony is biased. | R-- | be just as bad, or even worse, in Canada than in Britain. {tain can be made aware of facts { men of this country | tions {and to form a wrong impression of ia time in the future when Canada { workers, but the time is not yet. Un- {til the vacant agricultural lands are | time comes, the labor men of Great | Britain should be discouraged from | ! viously had been more than unduly | the second was by WARNING TO BRITISH WORKERS A timely warning bas been gent | Ramsay MacDonald, leader of | the labor party in the British bh use | of commons, by the trades and la- bour council, of Victoria, B.C. the present time earnest efforts are being made to induce immigrants to come to Cariada, and although the ference is being given to those who are agricultural workers, the aotual regulations are such as to give encouragement to any class ot workers from the British Isles. It is in connection with this that the la- hour of "Victoria are warning fn Britain, Their message to the British iabeur leader is a warning to the effect that no worker should leave Britain for Canada without having secured de- finite employment before sailing. The goes on to say that it would be a calamity for both the British workers and for Canada were {dle men in the old country to be beguiled by stories of prosperity and employment into seeking entrance into Canada, while this country has | not completely solved its own un- | employment problem. These are words of wisdom which! have been penned by -the men of Victoria® Those who have come from the cld country are well aware of the glowing stories which are told of the country ofthe golden west by the shipping agencies and others who make profits out of the unsuspecting i These are things over government has little | control. Every immigrant who leaves the old country means a! profit to the agent who books his| csage, and these men are natural- the business to make as much as they ean, irrespective of the fate which may await the immi- grant on his arrival on this side of the Atlantic, ing circulated, it is but®hatural that the man who cannot find work in the old land, and who has enough money to come. to Canada, should turn his eyes westward in the hope of doing better. The average old country immigrant is not complete. ormed regarding conditions on | this continent. He is probably not aware that conditions in his own particular line of employment may | to e men letter immigrants which the ey With such stories be- | o 8 ly There is one way, and one only, | by which the workers of Great Bris | the true | of conditions im Csnada, and! that is by the metaod adopted hy! the Victoria labor men. The labor Know condi- have not yet returned to normal, that although there is a de. cided improvement in many lines ot | | Industry, there is not, as yet, any | room for an influx of artizans or city workers in the Dominion, This fact should be spread broadcast through- out Great Britain, so that men may not come here to be disappointed, the country rived at a bad time. because they have ars There will be will have room for thousands of such filled up, and the farms. of Canada are multiplied, the cities cannot ex- pect that prosperity which creates a shortage of*workers, and until that coming to this country, CANADA'S FINANCES. There are two main features rated stand out prominently in the stat | ment of Canada's finances for tha | ten-month period eending on Jan, | 31st, which has just been The first issued from Ottawa. feature in | the gratifying fact that wh'le the revenues have shown a substantial | was made 17 it is proposed to spend | wearing red increase, ordinary expenditures for [$40,000 on an office thus increasing | #nkles as a sign that they have been the same period have shown a large | decrease. This is a satisfactory posi- tion and one In"'which the people of Tha present government when went into power had before it the un. enviable task of trying to balance a budget which for some years pre- it it heavy on the expenditure side. There were two ways by which it could be done. The first was by cutting down expenditures wherever possible, and increasing the revenues by a readjustment of tax provisions. Happily, the govern ment has been sucessstul Th applying both these methods. The expend!- tures have been reduced by the sum of $6,241,022 for the ten-month/ period, and it Is encouraging to. know that the bulk of this decrease | was effected during the past month, | { which shows that there is a steady | | improvement. On the revenue side | of the balance sheet there is an in- crease of $9,652,196 over the cor- responding ten months of the pre- vious year, and about one-third of this increase was earned during the month of January. These are heal- thy signs ,and they show that the government is working along the | proper lines to bring a return of { better financial conditions for the Dominion. i The second feaure of the state-| ment, however, is not quite so satis. | factory. It'is that, in spite of this| increase in the margin of revenues | statement, jcontact between them { they elect over expendit: 842 had to be ad debt during the % This does not seem very consistent! with the other main features of the | but the is this addition had to 'be to explanation is to 8 na- | largely national made that tional debt made owing to advances the railways. The time has not yet come when the country can change in the financing w has to be done for the national systems. It could not be expected that a new government could, in one year, turn a deficit of seventy-one millions for the railways alone into a surplus; and that is the reason why money has still to be pald out for railway purposes. The time is not so far distant, however, when the railways will be on a revenue producing] basis, for each succeeding month finds an inorease in the margin of earnings over operating costs. Were it not for the heavy Interest and! capital charges ,the railways would | now be paying their way. With the co-ordination of the systems, how- ever, there will be a continued Iim- provement, an' da, more substantial provement, and a more substantial to hope that before very many years the railway system owned by the! people of Canada will be helping to reduce the national debt which it has swelled so largely for the past few years. 10 a COUNCIL VS, COMMISSION. It is unfortunate that there should be a rupture between the city coun- | cil and the utilities commission, It appears to heave been brought about |by a very simple matter, but which | Is significant as showing how quickly the people will become aroused when the trouble originates at the point of and those to do their business, From the question of how where the people must pay their {counts has grown the issue between | the council and the commission; the rights of the latter to proceed with large expenditures, and whether the provisions of the public that constituted ut ies act the commission are | being observed. It is certaln that there has been an absence of close touch be-! tween the council and the commis- sidn that should exist est of harmony, and thi! due to the lack of information in counsil respecting the conduct of the public utilities. The pec expect alder- men to redress their grievances and to answer questions regarding ex- | penditures, and it {3s important that aldermen should study all matters | and be in a position to give the rate- payers some satisfaction, i The commission in spending $40,-| 000 may be right or it may be wrong, | but why go ahead with a program-| me calling for constantly growing expenditures without regard to the! desires of council or the people? Why i fgnore the alternative of utilizing the city hall building for an office, es-| pecially when it means the saving of $40,000 $50,000 that better be applied to the indebtness against the plant, a course demand- | ed in the interest of economy? This is a question of financial] policy that the council has a right to | t1 Lae the inter- s is ple or le be consulted about, and it was not | consulted, neither had the council | any data regarding the affairs of the | commission, although the public utilities clearly intended it! should. But it also intended that sur- | plus funds should revert to the cor-| poration. t is difficult to understand why a i commission would choose a course | diametrically apposed to public senti- act ment without taking any means to obtain the concurrence of the coun-| cil, and it is here that the mistake | the debenture debt and keeping some | section of the city out of pavements for some years, surely the council is right in calling a halt to such a scheme, If there is money available to apply to plant debt and permit a reduction of rates, it is the duty ot| the commission to do it before creat- | ing further liabiMties. | That * Body of - Bourg By James W. Barton, M.D, For when supply of gas is low | { | Those White Spots in Your Nails. | success of their banquet held in the! A chap very much interested in! Spiritlsm, New Thought, Clatrvoy-] ancy, and allied subjects, confessed that he believed in. Palmistry also. Questioning brought out the infor-| mation that he had had his palms! read, and the palmist had made the! astonishing statement that he was! just recovering from a severe nerv-| ous breakdown. Now this was real- ly the cas# and of course he was as- tounded at such knowledge on the] part of the paimist. Now was there really any clairvoyancy about this knowledge? None whatever. i Physicians have noted that little THE DAILY BRITIS 'ner of tuberculous or anaemic con- ditions. | of getting a job | Needed | at Tribune office. might | That pose, | ing list--what'll BBLE THOUGHT FOR TONY! ALL THINGS POSSIBLE ~--Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are pos- sible to him that belleveth.--Mark 9: 23. | i 1 i white transverse linés with irregular | edges often show in people below par physically. Now what does this condition mean? Has it really any significance? Yes, it signifies that the individual possessing same is in a lowered condition of health gen- erally. The blood pressure is low, and there are usually symptoms of physical and mental depression. It often follows a severe iliness of some ind, being frequently the fore-run- me, these Don't misunderstand it doesn't necessarily follow conditions. Don't get alarmed if you have a! few of these white markings in your nails. They are fairly common as, a matter of fact, Nor does it neces- | sarily follow that you are going to! develop Tuberculosis, Rnpaemia or other wasting condition. However, it is often. a warning sign that you are not in the best of health, that you are in fact below | par, and so fresh air, good food, and | sensible exercise are at once indi- cated. | ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY SAM HILL Best Thing te Take. 1 wlll take precau 1, often have been 1 need to take no dc For then you won't ta 50 yetor's dope ke, cold. -- Observations of Oldest Inhabitant. I kin remember when parents didn't expect tea to 'attend to the job of training t children. Well, Isn't That the Truth? "Pa," sald Cla "1 dpn't suppose a timid man would have much ch e in a bank would he?" "Why, .not, sca?' asked "Because a bank shy, 1 2 for his dad never The Stork, It Appears, Was Scooped. Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Measure On the Last Lap Suit and Overcoat Clearance Da D BIBBY'S . 21.00,°27.0 33.50 Just a few more days and your last op- portunity of the season goes when this sale becomes a matter of history. Every prudent man who needs a Suit or Overcoat for present as well as fu- ture needs will do well to buy Clothing while these low prices prevail. Take advantage of this clearance. BIBBY"S Kingston's Cash and One Price Clothing House (Ky.) Outlook) es (Kelat Cor. Falmouth [= 8ome three wr four PS a NA Demoorat reported a little daught t ; the homs of Mr. and Mrs. * for a few days with his parents, dams, but the little f Dr and Mrs, Bird. tracked In some way Mre. Verille DeWolfe Elgin, tive until last Mg spending a few days with her par- and then it was a boy ents, Mr. and Mrs. Robt, Sinclair Miss Laura Butler, nurse-in-train- ing at the General Hospital, King- ston, is visiting her parents, | Miss Margaret Edwards, attending | Toronto university, came down for the week-end, but owing to a very bad cold will have to remain a little | longer than she expectea. Royden Bell returned today {rom | | Akron, Ohio, where he has Deen is nday, February Finish This Yonrself-- They said that it was coe nd it Did cost like coal, I'm here to teil; But when 1 put the furnace-- gosh! found well? I it surely burned Itke -- Some New Clothes Himself. "Alas," sighed the shapely wife, "I suppose I'll simply have to begin wearing my skirts longer." | for the past few weeks. { "You will" grimly replied her hus-| The many friends of Mrs. C. E.| band, "for I simply can't wear these Clark, Kingston Mills, will be pleas- | old trousers any longer." led to hear that she has recovered sufliciently to be taken home from the hospital Mrs. E. R. Hagen is visiting friends in Kingston for a few days. Mrs. Russell Lee, Aylmer, Que. {fs visiting Mr. end Mrs. John Lee at the custom house. Mrs, Frank Tapping spent the wer k-end with her sister Mrs. E. C. Clark, Kingston Mills, Miss Myrtle Johnston, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, Main street. Keep Em, Adam, Keep "Em; Nobody's Gonna Call For "Em. (Liner in Adam Breede's Hastings Tribune) FOUND--Two auto cranks. They Ought To Know. d it said =? Deseronto et hair dre WwW. G is the older ssers state folks who dye. | BREAD Every Machine In Our Shop is the latest and thoroughly tested for the best results. You can give us your order feeling assured that it will be carried out with promptness and thoroughness. An inspection of our plant is invited Bishop Machine Shop KING AND QUEEN STREETS THE GOOD HOME- MADE KIND Home-made Bread, Buns, Rolls and Fruit Loaves. They are made right and the quality is in them. Choice variety of Pies made daily. TASTE-RITE BAKERY F. A. ATKINS Phone 2202) Corner of Princess and Alfred Sts. We'll Bet on This. shawis Ww Mr. O'Gorman Beaubien, Ganan- . oque Junction, was taken lo the Hotel Dieu yesterday ad operated on for appendicitis. Rev. Mr. Spencer today. Miss Helen Harris is the hostess a sleighing party this evening after which sae will take her guests, to the home of her brother, W. G.| Harris, Pittsferry, for refreshments | and a litt.e indoor fun. ! rs. ¥. J. Skinner was called to Johnstown, N.Y. yesterday owing | to the illness of her mother. Sam H the funny-o>lumn Mis Bessie Abernethy, Kingston, hound © The Enquirer, says "Young | spent the week-end with mr. and Mrs. women of London have "taken to|Mac Abernethy, ribbon around their| yw. F, Martin is spinding a deys in Kingston. | Yor The farewell dance given to =miss ~ Mae Bishop. last evening at the cance club was a most enjoyable | » { affair, sixty-five couples or more were | present and what proved to be one | of the best dances of the season was, |no doubt due to the fact that Mae | | is extremely popular, among a large | {circle of friends in Gananoque and | ! vieinity and all who possibly could | came to thie little evening arranged in her honor. i Charles Ralph, Lansdowne, was in| | town last evening for the Knights of | { Columbus banquet. many, 1 Are back, and fashionable women. But {t will be many, and then some before $18 lk shirts again will be worn by working men. years, will be Any n by many years Kingston 18 mm Gems From Guide Hook To Success. The man looking for a "snap" may find one, but it will be occupied by the chap who systematized his work, rade good and therefore is still hold- Ing on to the job. -J. E. F. If You Are From Missouri--- (From the Vivifier) of ol | few 'Tis to titter. Over here little you can see vaccinated." they wear yourselves so That Doesn't Heat the House, For the coal man I have no use, He surely makes me swear; When I asked for a load of coal He just gave me hot alr, ~Sam Hill 827 The gas man surely pains me so, His ways I would not share; He just turns on cold air. ~--Canton (Ohio) News. News of the Names Club. wouldn't do any godd, we sup- but still Otto Warner lives in Quinoy, I Will Sease,: of St. Louis. and Chinn, of Hale, Mo, are on the wal we do with them? It Bonar law saya if forced to with- | A !draw British troops from the Rhine, +. !it will mean the end of the entente. | | Irish Free State fo;des are round- ing up a nest of irregulars in the mountains around County Cavan. i For Indigestion Teb. 13.--The Knights of Colum- bus are to be congratulatcd on the Sb Acid, Gassy Stomach, Bloating. Flatulence, Try Stuart's Drys- pepsin Tablets, | Sour, Lyceum last evening. The principal | speaker of the evening was J. P.| Dunn, Prescott, executive agent for! * f i ' lieve thé gassy, sour ris- | the dominion of the Knights ot Col- | ery Tes hey a? bloating. umbus. The following were present Beartbuzn, pressure and muon troubled . cau from Frontenac Council, Kingston, éue 30 IO a Te J. H. Welch, J. Grady, Vincent Kane, | game as when the stomach is working! la welch, M. rah, J. Behaa | ocket Pg Bg He a 86 W. J. Bailey, Dr. J. Davis, Frank | fem: box to-day. any (druggist They | Fallon, John O'Neill, M. Killen, Dr. | sure do the wor fou know from : 4 re . i ce that if the stomach works Davis also proved to be a very elo- | Sy or sour risings, belch-' quent speaker. x ing and so on, you gensrally feel fine | + ache, 0 cons . e Bart Lish, Ww. Gregory, Hewitt and DE tired feeling. Be sure - Ketley vosterday for Pontiac, | ge: a box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Teb- A. Ketley left ¢ y , Michigan. lets known ln pecple ALi eves the ~ TU. 8. and Canada ag the one re ie re- i Di. Edward Bird, Toronto, is home! N After eating or at any time chew | one or two Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab- | el for indigealion. man cure. enza by obtaining the following from J. H. JARVIS Opp. Princess Street Methodist Phone 2373m. Dr. J. O. Macdonald OFFICE HOURS: { | mmm We are always sup- plied with a full line of sick \R quisites. Phone your wants and let us de- liver promptly. Dr. Chewn's Drug Store 180 | pe You BITTER ORANGES For Marmalade now in stock. Jas. REDDEN &: Co. Phones 20 and 990. INFLUENZA Prevention is better than You may prevent influ- Buckley's Bronchitis Mixture Dr. Chase's Syrup Wampole's Preparations Mathews' Syrup of Tar Syrup of White Pine and Tar Miller's Grippe Powders, etc. "The House of Satisfaction" md -------- DAVID SCOTT Pirmber Plumbing and Gas Work a spec ialty. All work guaranteed, Ad. Bi dress 145 Frontenac Street. ! Phone 1277. Church, OPEN NIGHTS. ' Lome A A cP ct tt tt oe BARRIE ST, (Near Princess) 2- 4, 7-58.30 p.m, "PHONE 1710. | Two Car S BITUMINOUS Egg and Stove Size Particularly adapted for Hot Air and Quebec Heators. 15.00 1 Crawford COAL Foot of Queen 8¢. et -------------- SICK ROOM NEEDS Furnaces Price room re- ", intesy Street. Phone 313 | -- a _- A Bt sit at wa | Daily Sentence Sermon. don't square yourself wit by getting even with him. Phoae 0.