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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ree that he gets outdoors every day, gets good food and only at meal- times, that he gets at least ten hours sleep, and that he is encouraged to] play like other children. Now, isn't that a reasomable pro- | u BRITISH WHIG SMALL ENVY. and on the whole a better era for the It 1s written that on a certain | human race. occasion Aristedes of Athens 'was! approached by an illiterate citizen | with the request that"the great Ath- A HOPEFUL ADMISSION. Everything We Advertise You Will Find in Our Store For the first time since the armis- ishest Dally and Semi-Weekly b URITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 00. LIMITED Editor Managing-Uirector Ea TELEPHONE n chan, » connecting a | departments es . cevesvne $5.00 year, by mail to rural efileces $2.50 Year, to United States (BSemi-W f mot pal adv year, to United States . F~TOWN REPREKSHNTATIVE Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal 'W, Thompson .. 00 King St. W. 3 Teront " Letters to the Edjtor are published over the #etual mame of the Attached ic one of the best job ting offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of (irculations 'Home: A sleeping place adjacent the garage. WA S------ S-------- . Japan has a real housing problem 'on its hands. -------------- Many a fight is not for rights but for wants. / The middle class is the one half- ~ Way between Easy street and a sher- Half the world may not know how the other half Mves, but it has its -- The most hopeless conservative is the left-over 'progressive of an car- lier generation. 4 -- So drive to-day that the florist 't buiM an "At Rest" pillow for to-morrow. HE A---- _Milliners are Tespomsible for a deal of the overhead expense of average home. The parties to an industrial con- Versy are never as far apart as r rival statistics, : -------- ten. It isn't the prohibition law the ¥ots object to so much as the at- pts to enforce it. long as so many persons are lisfled with the veneer of life there I be plenty of it. (If it is true that the earthquake an island, the earth is still the process of making. Some people feel cheated unless je list of victims contains the names 'somebody they knew. ill becomes us to spedk hard about Europe's sanity. Never evil of the departed. A -------- f there were no half-baked poli- theories, what would men es- when they have a grouch? ot ------ About half of loyalty Is just the t of basking in the reflected of a great man's greatness, It it's an old, ramshackle build- at should be torn down, any 0 five . department can save are no sentimental songs the writer yearns to be back to the dear oid = wheat . mmf rig 4] ih, well; that kind of people nev- get a chance to feel important when they monopolize the S AR we ie v A 3 rs % funny thing shout Who's ~ that it mentions so many x 1 + claim to high recognition. Ying opportunity enian write his name on a shell to '| be cast for the banishment of Aris- tedes and that, after complying with the request, ho asked the illiterate the reason for his vote -- to which the latter replied that he was tired of hearing Aristedes called the Just. The spirit and temper of the Ath- enfan illiterate has too long been permitted to survive, and is too much alive to-day. There is in this as well as other lands too much of the petti- ness that sharpens ite axe for those called just merely .because they are so called. No man wonld admit hate of virtue. But many, too many, unreasoningly develop hostility against those whode records establigh Pre-em- inence in service to the public, 1d the city, to the community, is at risk of enmity of those who, like the 248) "little" Athenian, would vote ban- "| ishment of greatness and virtue THE KINGSTON FAIR, While many people regard the Kingston Fair as a place of amuse- ment, and others as a place afford- te indulge their curiosity, it is essentially ah agricul- tural exhibition and as such is a cause for just pride, not only on the part of our farmers who have made it what it Is, but in all classes of citi- zens who appreciate intrinsic worth and realize the position of the farm- er in the financial and economic wei- fare of the country. In its purely agricultural charac- ter the fair is a great success, and the British Whig joins its highest tributes with those who see on every hand the evidence of ability, patience and skill in bringing to fruition the products of the soil. The exhibitor is invariably a man who gives his best thought to his calling, and whether his contributions be in the form of fleld crops, live stock or dairy products, they represent his best endeavors and merit the highest praise. He is a leader in his chosen field, and agriculture is benefitted because of his constant endeavor to produce something just a little bettor than he did before. . While we congratulate our farm- ers, their wives and families upon their splendid work, we have also something to say of Kingston's erter- prising merchants who join with them in making the fair a great at- traction from a business point of view. They have shown initiative in going after business and they are dominated by the spirit of service that never fails to bring results. These men are leaders in Kingston's business community, and the fair is, therefore, representative of the best we have to offer. 'We congratulate the directors and officers of the fair upon the splendid beginning and hope for a continuance of good weather in order that the highest expectations of all may be realized. WHAT 18 CULTURE? The great apostle of culture in mid-Victorian England" was Matthew Arnold. He believed that England, in common with continental Europe, was drifting toward anarchy. He thought that Epglish public life under the leadership of a number of well-meaning but short-sighted poli- ticians, was degenerating into sheer confusion. His panacea for the cor- rection of these unwholesome condi- tions, was culture. By culture he understood "getting to know the best that has been said and thought" or. a® he elsewhere defined it, "the study of perfection." In other words, as safeguards for the future, he placed his reliance on literature, books and a considerable measure of academic lesgrning. At the recent Oxford summer meeting Dr. Jacks, principal of Man- chester college, while admitting that Arnold was one of the greatest nien that Oxford has produced and that his conception of culture was cor- rect as far as it went, yet maintain- ed that it did not go far enough. There were, in Dr. Jacks' opinion; two geriovs defects im Arnold's theory. The first was that it made any large measure of culture inae- cessible to. the majority of men and women in a busy world of highly specialized occupation, and. the sec ond and deeper one was that it made culture consist in knowledge itself ledge is put. > © Dr, Jacks' own idea is that true und wider in its outlook. Know- jedge is desirable, but it should not be kept "merely for the polish and wid be for drawing out the best that is in others. Culture and pot in the use to which know-| tice was signed a German statesman has come boldly before the pnblic with an.admission that the German people realize that they lost the war This statement was made by Dr. Cuno, former chancellor of Germany, when he arrived in New York a few days ago. It may be that he had. to wait until he was far from German admission, for nearly every action of Cermany since the signing of the Versailles treaty has been such as to indicate that the people of that coun- try had no realization of defeat in the 'war. Even before that treaty was signed, their every action ndi- cated that they felt they had won a moral victory because of the fact that their country had escaped invasion. 'When the German soldiers returned from the front fol- lowing the cessation of hostilitiva, they were greeted with cheers and their path wes strewn with flowers. There were no signs that they were a conquered remnant of the great German war machine which, four years previously, had ridden rough- shod over Belgium. Their own peo- ple received them as heroes, and that has been, outwardly, the German at- titude since that time. not a half hearted one. "The Ger- mans realize that Germany lost the war," he said, "and Germany, there- fore, must pay for the war. Germany is willing to pay to the limit of her capacity." a If this statement were being made by the present German cnance!lor, in- stead of by the man who preceded him in that office, it would have a greater effect on the settling of the vexed questions which are confront- ing Europe to-day. Strange to say, Cuno himself did not talk in that way when he was chanedllor. His whole energies during his period of office were devoted to evading, if he possibly. could, the responsibility of paying anything at all. That bas been the attitude of successive Ger- man chancellors ever since the peace treaty was signed. They have all had one desire, to-dodge the respon- sibility of bearing any part of the reparations which they agreed to pay by signing the Versailles freaty, and, thanks to the early leniency of the Alles, they have succeeded in their policy. It may be that the occupation of the Ruhr, ill-advised as it may be in some of its phases, has awakened the German mentality to the realization that they lost the war. That mental- ity understands only one thing, and that is the application of brute force, and the rough shod methods of the French in occupying German terri- tory may have brought about the condition 6f mind to which Dr. Cuno refers. ' If that is so, then the Ruhr incident has done some good, and, if the proper course of wisdom is now followed by the "Allies, it may yet he used as a means of making Germany pay what she ought to pay. That Body of Pours By James W, Barton, M.D, Is Your Child Delicate? I have often wondered why par- ents will say, "You know John or Mary is delicate and I don't ask them to do 'much around the house." John gets out of cutting the grass or taking out ashes, and Mary js not required to do any household chores. Now, ¥ John or Mary is delicate the family doctor should be consuit- ed. | Don't ask him for a good tonic for them, but ask him to taze a look over them. There must be a reason for calling them delicate and let him help you find it. ) Youngsters that are considered delicate lose a large part of | the necessary training in life. h standpoint. they lose heavily deed. A "delicate" boy can be just | culture sh¥uid be broader in its basis | )jcate. 80il befere he dared make suoh an | Ex-Chancellor Cuno's admission is | position? | Clarence Ludlow Brownell, MA, Fellow Royal Geographical Society, London, England. few years. increase rivais the speed speeders, and is like the too, in being almost out of hand. both the lesser and the greater prob: lems is absolutely necessary, in order increasing alarmingly. + is choking streets and highways. Con- fusion is increasing. Several things must be done. Judge Coatsworth, of York County Court, speaking in Toronto recently. laid stress on the fact that it is ocly 5 per cent. of car drivers who are gree. 'These are the ones who. in his view, should suffer. They should receive jail rontences. Fines do not ferent to a term behind the bars. the Trafic Court, Brooklyn, New York, says-that ome of the things essential to safety on the roads ie a conscience. 'Americans sadly need a conscience," he de- clares, "they are short as to the sense of duty and of personal re- sponsibility, and as to the harm, the injury, the distress they cause through carelessness." It is laize faire with them as Bryce said in his "American Commonwealth;" "Let 'er go, Gallagher," as the Americun phrase has it. That will not do at all. It is not the way to behave. There is a fairly good conscience as to other things--- not 100 per cent. good, but still dis- vernable. It was in each ocase-a growth. Our very remote ancestors did not have even a vestigital con- science, but in time one came and has developed from nothing to con- siderable proportions. The automobile conscience is zero at present. The problem will be to find a germ somewhere, sew it in like a monkey gland, and develop it. The operation and the development will take time, and it is first neces- sary to find the germ. Then comes education. The whole continent needs edueation. At pre- sent evervome is in the pupil class. There is no one in the teaching elass. Nec one has had the experiegjce that is necessary to equip a teacher, In- deed, there has been no placé to get the experience until right now, for conditions such as obtain to-day have not existed before. It is all new. However, the most intelligent in- dividuals, amongst those interested in the public weal, are taking up the traffic question, and are studying at home and abroad how to proceed. This means that the problems will be solved. Then those who have found how, will be in a position to teack. In the meantime, something should be done to establish the sam: tort of laws throughout the entire continent of North America. Some of the laws still on the statute books are absurd. Some are so foolish one can hardly believe they ever existed. Here is ona that is a "gem" for ab: sundity. A southern state legisla- ture passed it: "On approaching a corner where he cannot command a view of the road ahead, the automebilist must stop not less than one hundred yards from the turn, toot his horn, ring a bell, fire a revolver, hello, ani send up three bombs at intervals of five minutes." This suggests the ordiaancs which rassed at a New kKngland town meet- ing. The town hall was free for all towns folk to hold meetings for dis- cussion of all questions whatsoever, death-producing speed at fourteen miles an hour. shoo the people out of the way. That long ago. THT] Hike a1 : : : i Controlling (7) Traffic. | Traffic on thoroughfares and high- ways, in North America. has increas- cd with amazing rapidity in the last In tact. the speed of the | of the | speeders | Not only are the speeders a proh- | offered you: lem, but the traffic itself, of which | the speeders are a part. Selving { to safeguard Myves. 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