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THE DAILY 01ST YEAR. Published ; Hamu Semi-Weeki Bb; THE BRIE ix) WHIG UBLISHING CO, LIMITED Ji Gs EiMeots ..... 2ev.o Presiden Lemon A. Guild ........... Editor and Maspaging-Director TELEPHONE Private Exchange, connec departments year John te United Staten your, ay conn u Weekly kdition) omen your, by Camene ws your, to United States ...... OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: ¥. Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal ¥. W. Thompson 100 King St. W,, Terente, Letters to the kditor are published only over the =ectual mame of the writer, -- 2: vee Aftacked Is one of the best job offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations Opportunity is seldom called f'she." It knocks but once. A man never loses faith in wo- men until one of them hurts his vanity. Another good intelligence test is the highway sign: "Sharp curve ahead." Private f business: Any business that seventeen government agents are prying into. It he asked "What'Hl it be?" in the old days, he was a bar-keeper. Now he is a host, "Most of the people who call to sympathize merely call to tell about their own troubles. A democracy is a land in which # man never gets tos importent to Pe asked for a match, ---------- ~ Great man: One whose good work remembered, and whose idiocies ve been forgotten. @ood manners are not forgotten. Some children have thair parents trained not to interrupt. There will be no more talk of revolution when the workman's wife Bo longer envies the wife of the boss. : -------- t " a ---------------- " The people who yat tremble In H88r of Reds are the same yellows ana. ques trembled in fear of the ------ As a general thing, the man who ' complains that he never has had a chance means that he never has had 8 soft snap. i A ---- It 1s said there would be no war It we lived on spinach. There would Pe It anybody tried to make us live on spinach. IE ------------------_-- Another objection to civilization 4s that it's against the law to elimi- _ Bate people who won't mind their own business. i ----_, A normal maid {s one who thinks eléaning a room consists in disturb. ing the dust and making it settle is a new place. Man may be a god, but one-third Of his happiness depends on his liver and the other two-thirds on the weather. ---- ------ Our legislatures are not easily Qiscouraged. They keep on passing laws in an effort to find some that will work, . The more vices you quit on the first of the year. the more quickly EE ---------------- It was some group's theory eérning a more equal bution 'of wealth that prompted build. ing of tho first jail. Ou can forgive a maa who has : you; but if you have i you must hate Bhim And mere to keep you con- THE BRITISH WHIG ¢| anid desirable, which the name "Ger. A SHORT MEMORY. A despatch from Regina, dated January 5th, states that three thou- sand German families are waiting to bateh will probably sail in February or March. - Dr. Pressuc Sherber, manager of the Association of Ger- man Immigrants, states that every _| assistance to the schefne of settling these Germans in Western Capada is being offered by the authorities at Ottawa. Surely, if the foregoing state- ments are true, the powers-that-he at Ottawa must be afflicted with short memories to encourage If any way the immigration and settlement of Germans in any part of Canada. It is not so long ago that the flower of young Canadian manhood fought and bled and died to crush the men- | ace to everything we consider good man' stood for. Why should Canada be made a dumping ground for such an undesirable element? Are we, through our immigration depart- ment, in anyway justified in taking a stiek to break our own backs? Our returned soldiers and the taxpayers | | who have to pay their share of the | cost of a costly war will assuredly | protest against such methods of | procuring settlers.' ! RAISULL A dead or a mythical bandit ac- { Quires something of the heroic and | romantic among civilized people to- | day. oIa fact, there has never been | & people which has not told and re- [told cherished tales of robber knights, Robin Hoods and of a Jesse James. But a real live depradating, ravaging, murdering robber, either in town or 3,000 miles away, strikes quite another feeling in the human mind. People heard with something akin to a shudder of the sojourn of an American woman in the desert camp of Raisuli, an internationally notorious and defiant Moroccan bandit. But the story of Rosita Forbes--in private life just Mrs. McGrath--reveals no more harrow- { Ing and hazardous experience than might be encountered during the | course of the usual Sunday after- noon. calls with the best families along any of our principal streets. Her readers were grievously disap- pointed. To-day Raisuli is feared and dis- trusted. His latest biographer finds him not so terrible as reputed. Per- haps all bandits are not as bad as they are painted. This, might ex- plain the worship of Robin Hood and the interest in Jesse James. Raisuli has a bad reputation, in part because he dared to lay violent bands on a civilized traveller. As Rosita Forbes depicts this modern Old Man of the Mountains, there is 'nothing terrible 'about him; he is merely' a man of gense, looking after his own interests in the manner emigrate to Canada and the {Irst | Ra -- and pursed, for to-morrow it 'may be their turn to join ome of those dole- ful lines that waitall day for a fist of black bread. The Government, with its kaleidoscopic shuffles -along crisis, supported neither at home | nor abroad. Taxes are generaily | evaded, the refusal to accept govern- ! ment notes, no matter how. many I'zeros they display, is beginning to appear and the final crash of na- tional bankruptcy seems almost at hand. And no matter whether this crash has been brought about through knavery, foolishness in Germany and throughout the world will be the same. Fortunately, help may be on the way. The Allies, together with the United States, have at last been per- mitted by France to undertake the necessary enquiries into German fin. ancial conditions. This will take IFonsiderable time, but the recom-| not be \ I just thought how much atten-| mendation will undoubtedly be to make Germany a very large loan, a transfusion of financial blood, for definitely productive purposes. After that, long after, there may be some possibility of the sick man being able and willing to pay reasonable generous slogan "'Make (iermany a paper mark, A CENTURY OF MONROE. A full century has passed since that quiet, elderly gentleman named Monroe nailed "Keep Out" signs to the doors of North and South Am- erica.. There, thanks -to American diplomacy and the British navy; they have remained and, as far as Europe is concerned, are likely long to continue. Two whole .tontinents were thus closed to European con, quest, and when we compare their hundred years with that of Asia and Africa, where no such restraint was in force, the doctrine appears in a most favorable light. It stood off Germany, for instance, who cherish- ed large designs upon South Ameri- ca 'where she held a striking com- mercial supremacy. Is the Monroe Doctrine as immut- ably selfish as many people outside the United States believe? Certain. ly under its protection American Im- perialism has committed acts of ag- gression that mateh anything the British Imperialists have engineer- ed in the same period. But in both countries ideas of duty, of respon- sibility, of restraint and generous neighborliness are markedly in- creasing and the disposition to mind one's own business--which is the core of the Monroe Doctrine--is neither wicked nor selfish. But it is not impossible that the doctrine should be repudiated from within by those for whose benefit it was supposedly framed. The Anglo- prescribed by the conditions of his! place and time. These conditions, | after all, are not so different from ! those of our own civilization. Rais- uli is no mere bandit; he started out to be a scholar. He tells Mrs. Forbes: "I wanted to know every- thing that happened in the past, for in those days I believed that wisdom lay in books." Banditry for him was no rude pastime; it was a business, and highly lucrative. Let no college pro- fessof™ who his left respectable poverty for the business world, Where he can get plenty of action and perhaps plenty of money, cast the first stome at Raisull, whe has learned in Morocco, as men have Saxon leadership of the world is be- ing seriously contested by the Latin revival. France is assured the hege. mony of Europe for years to come; Italy and Spain are carefully strengthening their common ties; the representatives of Latin America play an active and important part in the work of the League of Na- tions. So the very suggestion of North America tutelage or domin- ance may soon becdme galling to the Latin Republics. It is ap interesting speculation whether in that case the United Statés would step down or would she feel compelled to main- tain her protection even against the wishes of the protected? ~ learned elsewhere, that wisd is to be found in the study of one's neighbor--and, perhaps, that it can be found there more easily by ome who has previously sought it in books, Pr-------- THE IN GERMANY. What is the frue situation in Ger- many? Who at this distance can Presume to decide when observers on the spot are diametrically oppos- ed both in thelr reading of the facts and their fears for the future? Eng. land is increasingly certain that Ger< many is falling (or being driven) into a state of decay and digintegra. tion, With equal conviction France maintains that Germany is inten- sively arming for a war of revenge, Which can be met only by the most active military measures including the fortification of the Rhineland and French dominance in the Ruhr, France sees noisy generals and gec- Tot societies, new steel and chemical works and unprecedented imports of HF copper and cotton--potential shells and explosives. England sees starv- ing multitudes, a pitiful excuse for PRESS COMMENT Fresh Air and Health. It all the precautions laid down by the doctors and sanitarians against the spread of infection could be observed, the health records of the community would be vastly bet- ter than they are. One of these upon which especial stress is being laid -~ at this season is directed against the spread of "colds." Not 'every one can follow the advice to stay in bed to tide the worst stages of a cold, but ventilation of work- rooms and offices is one precaution for the neglect of which there can bé no reasonable excuse.--Phila- delphia Public Ledger. The Incubus, No one disputes the debt of the United States. It was legitimately incurred, and Great Britain should be the last to repudiate it. But the settlement which Mr. Baldwin made has bound us hand apd foot, and will certainly have consequences | most detrimental to our interests. The settlement should never have been made without u general Eur- opean agreement.--London Ex | or | foreign coercion the resulting welter yizame reparations, but that expansive and | Pay!" is probably no longer worth | ---- | ministries, i from make-shift to P [> { Your Rainy Day. insurance company's adver- nt the other day depicted an | umbrella with the following words | underneath it, "Is this all you have | saved for a rainy day?" | I passed a rocky piece of country recently where some cattle were grazing. In the centre of the field | | was a pile of hay with a fence | around it. It was being saved for! the winter, when the grass would | available. An tion is given these days to the needs of the future. That is generally | speaking. ! And yet TI could not help but | realize that often no thought is given to the future needs of that | body of yours. Your common sense tells you that { you will go up grade for one half of your life, and down grade for | the second half. And yet what are about it? You know less about your body than perhaps any other thing about you. You ignore the things, the ordinary everyday things, that you actually know should be done or left undone. Why? Because your body is so! wonder. ful. It goes along day after day. year after year, doing its dally work, notwithstanding all your you doing lack of thought and care. But what about your rainy day? What about your winter? Your rainy day, or winter, may he a severe illness, or it may mean) { the latter half of your life. v | Practical, farsighted people~aro | not talking about medicines much | these days. Osler, our greatest | physician, stated before he died that he expected to saon have his drugs down to. ffhree, What is my thought? That you ghould be so caring for your Rhody by using the ordinary laws of health and common sense, that you will lengthen out the first part, the youthful part of your life. Your body will remain resil- ient years longer if yop do so. And the latter part of life? should not be one of misery, aches, and of pains. 'If you live the first part right, you'll not depart from it during the second part. Your habit of life will be fixed. It will be an actual part of you. The patient affticted with tuber- culosis who hits ledriied how to live during his treatment in a sana. tarium, seldom dies is he follows the habit of life he learned at the sanatarium. In a former article I said that insofar as the care of your body was concerned it required no spe- cial knowledge. All you needed was some of the fresh air and sunshine, enough but not too much food, and enough ex- ercise to use up the food and keep your body strong. ~ It of FOUNTAIN PEN'S AID TO GENIUS Montreal Teachers' Magazine, Imagine the difficulties a man would experigpfe in our. Twentieth Century wo it he were dumb and had no knowledge of writing, How could he make himself understood, or permanently record his thoughts? The average child upon entering school js in almost the same predica- ment. It is true the child can make his wants known, and has perhaps little to communicate to others ex- cept those wants and his undevelop- ed ideas on play and the natural phenomena about him. As the child grows older his mind is trained, per. haps by his parents, but largely by his teacher. He absorbs a certain amount of knowledge in proportion to his intelligence and desire to learn, and sooner 'or later this know- ledge begins to ferment, in a man- ner of speaking, and the child has ideas of his own, which he wishes to give to others or record for his own future consideration. This must be done by writing. It is impossible to imagine what the stage of development of our world would have been to-day had the art of writing not been invented. That so <iuch trash has beem writ- ten is a small matter when we re- member those incomparable gems which have been given us by such men as Shakespeare, Milton and Thackeray. : Many centuries ago the world wa in a position similar to the child we were just considering. We will never know what knowledge was lost because it had to be stored in a man's brain instead of being into more permanent form. p from Age. to giges I : you, my friend: Examine all the Bargains that are being offered 'by all comers and goers and if we cannot save you money, price for price, value for value, BIBBY'S BIBBY'S 1 4 much as that 1920 saw three mil- risks setting one or the other of the ture, the king will know -- "~ WITH EVERY CONFIDENCE OUR FRIENDS CAN --to furnish you with Men's and Boys' Clothing, Hats and Caps, Furnishings at prices that will Meet and Beat Anything offered in this city. or any other city. We have been doing this for years and it is not likely we will fall down at this stage in our business career. We say to quality fer quality, we won't take your money. Largest Store of the Kind in Eastern Ontario / PY thoughts mew te him &nd he is al- most totally .unable to give expres- sion to them except verbally. How like the difficulties of Shakespeare with his quill and ink pot, of Car- lyle and Dickens, dipping and dip- ping at every few words. What golden thoughts must have escaped because of an inkless pen? The year 1883 marked the end of the period, centuries, long, when writing had been an unpleasant and difficult duty. The first successful fountain pen was made in that year by Lewis Edson Waterman, and con. tinuous and coherent writing was assured. It is safe to say that by his efforts and by those of his suc- cessors, the fountain pen has im- proved as much, and its use has spread as far, in the forty years prior to 1928 as the art of writing! developed from the beginning of his- toric times to 1883. This is the age of efficiency. Un- fortunately it is not an age of gen. ius. But our talent has aids--such | as the small iridium point with care. | fully modelled support taken the place of the old quill-- that perhaps may bring to light genius in unsuspected places. Per- haps our pupils and teachers up | plied with this efficient aid to Jiter- ary work may, here and there, pro- duce work that will become classic. The details of this development sound more like romance than facet, And it is romance in a way; not so much from the fact that the year 1920 saw three million pens sold, so lion men, women and ¢hildren, us- ing this dainty, graceful model of gold and iridium, instead of sputter. ing steel point. In an age of efficiency such as ours these old ink-splashers have no place. And in childhood and youth, aesthetic consideration must be thought of. They are potent, if un- obtrusive guides. Who can tell what latent genius, seeing penmanship made an aesthetic occupation, may not be awakened to productive ef- fort? What may not genius assist. ed by such a pen as, say, the Water. man, accomplish in our own day and age? that has Whatever You Want in the way of machine shop repairs or original work, we can do it for you, We have a model plant for manufacturing or repair work. Our men are expert in all kinds of ma- chine work, adjustments, etc. Bishop Machine Shop KING AND QUEEN STREN1. Hot Water Bottles In zero weather or times of sickness a Hot Water Bottle is a great comfort and conveni- ence. We have them in Earthenware, Metal and Rubber From small face bottle, 75¢., to highest grade--84.00, Dr. Chown's Drug Store 185 Princess Street. Phone 848 and lberty, as it is the least pre- carious of the ties that bind Great Britain to her multiple Imperial possessions." MONTREAL HOG PRICES. Some Closed at an Advance amd Others Lower. Montreal, Jan. 7.--A somewhat unsettled feeling prevailed in the Canadian live hog situation last BOURASSA AND THE MONARCHY. Montreal Gazette. Henri Bourassa, in the course of an editorial article, written in Le ' Devoir on the political crisis in Eng- land, says: "There are all the symp- toms of a cvnflict in which King George, forced to make an option, parties against him----perhaps all of them----if he should dissolve parlia- ment on his own authority and against the will of the three groups. There is every reason to hope, how: ever, that at such a perilous junc. 'ROW fo ex- ercise all the tact and good sense which he has on more than one occa- week, and prices were rather {rregu. lar which was attributed to the in- creased receipts at some centres, but the demand was ample to absorb all the offerings and a fairly good trade was done, At Toronto the murket opened stronger at an advance of 25¢ per 100 Jbs., with sales of thick smooth lots at $9.26 per 100 ibs. fed and watered, but with heuvier runs for the balance of the week a weuker feeling developed and sales of thick smooth stock on Wednes- day were made a1 3% to $9.25 per 100 ibs, anc. the murket closed un- settled with packers bidding $8.75 to $9 per 100 lbs. On the other hand the Winnipeg market opened steady at $7.76 per 100 lbs. for on gi proot of possessing. 1 the tiie condicns o 2s arg and the ) thick smooth hogs, but later in the week a stronger feeling developed and prices advanced. 40¢ per 100 - with sales at $8.15 per 300 Ibs, r at 38 per 100 Ibs. the condition of the ket, prices being st 'bulk of the sales of thick smooth lots at $9.25 to $5.50 fed and watered, but contyalts were made for delivery this w 10 $8.60 per 100 lbs, ~fo.b, cars | points of shipment. A fair trade LL C AS ERA aaa &, We have private funds to loan on mortgages, T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance 58 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phones 323J snd 1797J.