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6 J THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE BRITISH WHIG 91ST YEAR. CNN 3 GER Pubiished Daily and Semi-Weekly THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISZHIN . CO. LIMITED, KINGSTON, ONT. J. M. Cawpbef] .. Lema TELEFHONE Busicess Office . .Editeriz] Reoms Secta) . cash ........ 5150 One year, to United States ......53.00 OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: F. Calder, 33 St. John St... Montreal ¥. W. Thompson 'Hing St. W., to. Letters to the Editor are published ir over the Setual mame of the writer. Attached is ome of the best job printing offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG ts authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations Politics: Efforts to placate the West. Judging from their odor, cigarettes are well named. some The chap who always takes his own time often robs some other man of his. 'Mere provincial rake-offs can't y dishearten a-people who survived bananas. Men haven't destroyed civillza- | tion, but they have hurt its reputa- tion like thunder. : An educated man is one who can tell the difference between convic- tions end sore spots. The former kaiser is reported to be "failing mentally," just as though that were possible. . Too often a husband packs away his politeness with his young wit%'s wedding trousseau. Woman may be vain, but ths average man thinks himself rather pretty just after a shave. A woman is a creature who does- n't know which hat she likes until she sees the price tag. finger too bY 'Rings that fit your tight are dangerous. A bandit liable to cut the finger off. Rescue homes mean nothing to the girl of sixteen who has frelklas and likes to sit om Dad's lap. A hick town is a place where boys lose toes and things while endeavor- ing to swing freight trains. Nice thing about being a man is that you don't have to pull your socks og up over your knees. ---- . Correct this sentence: 'This cor- set." said the shop girl, "will give you those slender, girlish lines." ---------- If all the women stop talking, except, one, you know that one is telling why Anne divorced him. -------- Sorry husbands are useful. Ob serving them, wives are more con. tent with the husbands they have, $ ------ i The bachelor has one advantage. #Nobody steals his privilege of da- scribing his symptoms to the doctor. I-------------- ; " The man who brags -too much that he runs things about his house may refer to the washing machine, ------ Our insignificant opinion js that the third party. won't get any scand- -alous contributions from big bust- 3 BN ee ------------------ _ Watching and praying are the best lds to virtue. The individual doas the praying and the neighbors do the watching. ef : Tt isn't highbrow unless it is * a few can get that the meani the ing of tt t---- Correct this sentence: *'Let's make m leader of our gang," chorused . the boys, "because he has nice long curls." > | ANOTHER LABOR GOVERNMENT. ' The reports of the general election which was held in Denmark a few | days ago indicate that the Labor party has been returned with the largest group in the parliament of that country, and is ready, with the co-operation of a party of independ- ent Liberals, to take over the reins of government. These two parties combined will have a small majority over the combined forces of the Lib- erals and Conservatives, and the new premier will be T. Stauning, a man who has become somewhat fam- ous in his own country as chairman of the Danish Socialist party, This latest triumph of labor in a constitutipnal effort to obtain con- trol of a government indicates the trend of public thought in the pre- sent age. Denmark has been guffer- ing from acute industrial depression since 1920. The late government has been in office during the whole of that period, and has, apparently, been unable fo do much to improve 343 conditions, which were probably be- yond governmental control. The re- '| sult is geen In the rise to power of labor. The voice of the masses has, in the past four years, become articu- late, and has made itself heard in the placing in power of representatives of their own. class. The situation is somewhat on a par with that in Britain, where the acute industrial depression was re- sponsible for the accession to power of the Labor government. The more acute the depression, apparently, the ferers. This is exemplified by the fact that the members for the district surrounding Glasgow, Scotland, where the situation caused by un- employment has been more serious than anywhere else in the British Isles, are soclalists of the most radi- cal type, Thus it may be taken as a fact that the people have come to look updn their governments as be- ing directly responsible for their condition. They seem to have reach- ed the conclusion that the former governing clagses have failed to bring about any betterment of their conditions, and have, in a last effort to help themselves, overthrown tig Liberals and Conservatives and plac- ed their own party in power. Another situation which bears out this thought is found in Cafada, as well as in the United States. Al- though there has been some business and Industrial depression in these countries during the past three or four years, conditions have been very good in comparison to what they have been in Great Britain and in some European countries. There has been little Feal suffering because Of extreme poverty. There has been some unemployment, but not to any- thing like the same extent as on the other side of the Atlantic. In Can- ada and the , United States, living standards have not gone back dur- Ing the past few years, as they have done overseas. That is probably the 4reat reason why the labor party in these countries has not made any great headway in the matter of par- Hamentary representation, That is why radical socialistic views are confined only to a few radicals, and do not become part of the political creed of the party. In the United States, the socialistic element 1s con- fined to a very small group. In Can- ada, it exists only in a small way in Isolated spots. It does not represent any body of public opinion great enough to semd any number Of re" presentatives to parHament, and there is no hope of the Labor party in either of these two countries com- ing into power as a government with- in the lifetime of many of the people Hving to-day, unless there is some very sudden and drastic change in conditions. \ From this condition, it 1s possible to foresee the end of Labor govern- ment in Great Britain and elsewhere a8 soon as economic conditions have returned to normal. The man who and who is living comfortably, has no use for the vapourings of the average socialist orator, The ideas which may appeal to him when he is out of work apd hungry seem quite different when industry is booming, and this will bring about the down- fall of socialistic or labor govern- ments more quickly than anything else. It may seem rather paradoxi- cal, but it can confidently be predict- ed that if the British Labor govern- ment can sq far improve industrial conditions as to put an end to the unemployment. problem, them it will have provided the materials for its own demise, and will rot remain a Powerful unit very much longer, ------ ASSISTING SOVIET RUSSIA. It Soviet Russia entertained any hope that it would dictate the terms of recognition by Great Bri- ment would grant recognition under any circumstances, it must be dis- appointed. Premier MacDonald, in bis opening address before the par- 'ley mow taking place in London, laid. down . certain specifications which must de carried out before there can be actual recognition and financial assistance, He insisted that Russia must recognize the pri- vate clatms of British subjects, both in the form of debts and damages to private. property.' The Watertown, N.Y., Times, in commenting upon this point, believes that until this is done there is no hope of financial more radical the views of the stf- | is contentedly and happily employed,' tain and that they Labour ! ~Plutitude expressed so awkwardly| ment wip Saratas assistance. It points out, also, that the conditions lald down by Pres mjer MacDonald are not unlike thos¢] | of Secretary Hughes, of the United | | States, v The claims of Brjtish subjects In | Russia amount to a little over fr | teen million pounds sterling, presents Russian municipal bonds | which are held in Great Britain. The | soviet government attempted to | repudiate these bonds, along with | the obligations incurred by the czar- ist government, but Premier Mac- | Donald draws a sharp lind of dis- | tinction. The British premier evi- dently has taken his cue from the British bankers who sent to him a memorandum, setting forth the | terms under which they would make | loans to the soviet, government. These included the recognition of | | private debts and the sanctity of private investments. MacDonald, in effect, told the soviet delegates that the terms of financial assistance would be dictated by the British ban- kers, He said that the British gov- ernment had no funds to lend; and that there was not the slightest pos- sibility of the British government making a loan. If 'Russia wants [Pmoney it must look for it from the British bankers. That puts the ban- kers in a good strategic position. They are not particularly anxious | about loaning money to Russia, and | they cannot be blaméd for insisting | that certain conditions be met. To loan money to a country that refuses to recognize the sanctity of private obligations would be like investing it in wild cat oil stock. The Labour government has shown conservatism in dealing with the soviet envoys. It may go against the grain of the ul- tra-radicals of Britain whe would be willing to forgive and forget. The ultra-radicals, however, have no mo- ney to lend and nothing tc risk. Their contribution is talk. ALL CENSORSHIP SILLY. The senate of the New York leg- islature has passed a bill repealing motion picture censorship in tha state. Motion picture censorship, and foolish efforts to enforce it, are nothing new. It would treat the mo- tion picture, the greatest modern educating force, as the printing press was treated three hundred years ago. T In Cromwell's day they had cea- sors of the printing press. If you wanted to print a book you had to submit it to the official censors and Tet them kill it,' or cut it to pleces. Then you had to fyleya copy of it at Stationers' Hall. If it passed wita everybody's approval, you might print it. ; Busybodies felt that they ought to decide what others might print; that their judgment was reliable, that of others, not. But, fortunately, there were some powerful men living in Cromwell's day. One of them, Milton, printed his book on divorce, defying censorship and ignoring Stationers' Hall. Then he wrote his magnificient appeal fo- free printing, without censorship or interference, and printed the "Areo- pagetica" regardless of the censors. He had power enough to carry it through. And, elthough they didn't repeal the law, they didn't bother him or dare prosecute him, and censorship of the printing press was .a dead letter. 7 The way to kill stupid censorship is to fight it. Busybodies are cow- ards. PLAYGROUND A BOON, The public playground with its organized and supervised games has supplied that something which was for so many years lacking from 'the system of elementary education--a plan for keeping the school children healthfully busied and under re straint during the summer school recess. Within a relatively shor: time the public playground has been almost universally adopted in Can- ada, and everywhere it has proven itsel. . Before the inception of the com- munity play idea thousands of Can- adian children were let loose with the closing of the schools in the spring and in too many instances were allowed to run at large with- out restraint from home or schoo: until the opening of the school ses- sions in the fall. Much of the dis-. cipline and knowledge inculcated ia to these youthful minds during eight or nine months of school la- struction was irrevocably lost in the three or four months intervening between the school years. It was a wasteful and grossly inefficient system of education which ignored 25 per cent. and often 30 per cent. of each year. The community playground is a relatively new idea. There is now scarcely a city which has mot at least one public playground. Mos of the larger towns have provided free playground facilities. Every- _ Where the idea has proven itself. Nine months of indoor study and three months of outdoor play seems to be the able prescription for a nation of intelligent and healthful youth. The scientists of the mind and the body have long held that a sturdy body and a sound mind are the fruits of the co-ordina- tion of work and play and that with- 'out such co-ordination during adole- bldg 1 which fourteen million pounds re- | | entitled to their playgrounds; -{ will show no displacement. scence body and mind must suffer. | With public schoc's and public | playgrounds we are fo. tifying the | minds and bodies of our youth, and | by fortifying our youth we are fortitying the future of our country. Therefore, let there be a getting to- | of | gether on the part of the board ot | education .and. thewcity council (o | the end that the present deadlock be | broken. The 'youth of Kingston are | the equipment Is available, and the cost is already provided for. A little-- shall we say stubbornness?--on the | part of either the city or the board should not deprive the children of a great boon. - ; PRESS COMMENT zzing the Poet. Dr: Robert Bridges, English poet laureate, just landed in America, says his opinion of our poets will be "the very last thing I'll talk about." Dr. Bridges piques our-curiosity. Tell us why the reluctance, won't you, Dr. | Bridges? Do you dislike to repeat | what the others haye said, that Poe | is our best product, but least typical | of us? That the real American char- acter and literary genius are in the | rough and vigorous lines of Walt Whitman? That our cherished Long- fellow is an imitator, superficial and a third-rate poet? Do you hold back | from discussion of frees verse because | of your long enduring love for the | classical metres? , Do you hesitate | to tell us that much of our modern | poetry is barren of a message to troubled days because yours, as you are inclined to admit, dear doctor, also hag been? Is it because there is no message to be delivered to us? | Kansas City Star. Japan and Singapore. Regarded as it should have beém: as one of the naval precautions ne- | cessitated by the defence of the great carrying trades which has its focus in the southern portion 6f the 'Malay- an Peninsula, the construction of a| naval base at Singapore could have | excited no distrust in Japan. And | we can well. believe that the adop- tion by the last Parliament of a vote for the construction of the _ dock would have provoked no attention whatever in that country were there not writers outside to defend (or op- pose) it on the assumption that its necessity was to be found in the in- evitability of a war with the Island Empire. Japan was not criticized when she fortified the Benin Islands, nor has anyone thought of taking ex- ception to the strategic efforts which she has for some. time making to render that island impregnable. And as no one has disputed the right of Japan to be mistress in her own house, a similar right must be ceded to other Powers to administer their possessions as they please. Conse- quently, in the fortification of Binga- pore there could be no possible ground for anything deplorable in Japanese feeling.--Adelaide Chron- icle. \ That Body of Pours You stoop down to pick up an ob- ject, and as you come to the erect position you feel a "crick" or pain in the lower part of 'the back, on either the left or right side. i Perhaps you have thought you had reached the last step as you de- scended a stairway, and find that there was one more step downward than you thought. Again you get this pain In back. Or you have been sweeping, play- ing goif, shoveling snow, coal or» earth, and you get that eame pain. the And it doesnt pass away. In fact it begins to ache considerably, with often a pain down the leg. 'This pain down in the back, but- tock, and back of leg hecomes severe and you have what your" physician calls sclatica, because it is the sciatic nerve that causes the pain. This pain gets worse as you. at- tempt to use the body, but eases up it you can get yourself in certain position.on a chair or bed. What has happened? g Well you have sprained a joint, the joint between the hip bone and the back bone, or spinal column. 'This joint has been a subject of controversy between anatomists for years. ' Some call it a fixed joint; and therefore without movement, They claim that in the injury spoken of above there is no displace- ment seen in many of the cases. This 'does not mean anything, cause you can have a badly sprained ankle, ail puffed up and discolored, showing that the ligaments and oth- er parts are torn, and yet the X-ray Other anatomists claim, and they are now in the majority, that just as this ligament is stretched during labour, 80 can it be stretched, strain. 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Rest in bed for a couple of weeks is usually advisable, but where the breadwinner must be at work, the joint is supported at first by ad- hesive tape, and a special brace is worn afterwards for months, some- times for years. The adhesive tape--about two '0 three inches wide--is strapped tightly across the joint just about an inch or two below the body part of the hip bone Two or three strips | are applied, and applied tightly by having the patient puji:in the op- posite direction to that used by the physician. The adhesive is worn for three to five days, and then a brace, the lower strap of which corre- sponds to the line of the sprained joint is applied, and the patient is .| free from pain and can go about his 'I work. Often a very large abdomen will pull the spine forward, and al- low the hip bone,to go backward causing this same sprain. That 3 why abdominal belts often cure backaches INTO THE DEPTHS. September 14.--At this date the British Whig changes its political coufplexion for, says the ' unhappy #ditor, there is no choice for a "jpurnal wishing to live and do well uk the depths of Radicalism and the swill and mire of sycophancy." In the same issue is a theatre ad- vertisement with the following sig- smificant addition. "Special! Con- stables will be in attendance to pre- serve order." y m------ A Happy Evening. Sept. 21.--At a complimentary dinner to Mr. J. G. McKay. "The 2nd Vice then gave "Lady Elgin and the Fair of Canada," prefacing the toast with some eloquent and chiv- alrous remarks whith were duly ap- preciated by the company, and dur- ing which he carefully abstained from making any allusion to His Excellency her husband, viewing the lady merely as an amiable woman without reference to the name with which she was allied. . . . (Later) A few more toasts were then drank, of which we have not a very distant recollection." | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS Kingston in 1849 BiBBY'S a ---------- AnyMachine Parts "A fret class tm of i00 seres, three miles from Kingston; must be sold at once to wind wp an Estate; will sell at a sacrifice to quick buyer. Farms so mear the city are seldom in the market mow is your chance to get a farm well jocated at your own price. This farm is about square, to work; chelece clay loam has been mader cuitivation. Money to loan on mortgages. Fire Insurance im reliable com- Real Estate and Insurance 68 BROCK 8T., KINGSTON Phones 322J and 1797J, to be quickly warmed in the bright sunlight, and melting befins sven before the snow flurries end or drift- ing ceases. Though melting ceases before sunset, and the air becomes chilled during the clear night, on the following days the sun blazes away though clear, dry air and quickly re- sumes the yeduction of the snow | cover. The noctural cooling of the second right is insufficient to reduce the temperature to so low a leva! as on the preceding morning, s> even the hazy sun of the third day doss valiant service with the aid of a balmy wind, and large patches qf green, grass appear. A fourth day hardly gets started before the ground {is tear except for snowdrifts in the shadow of dense trees, and on northerly slopes. * . Without a large body of cold dry alr there could "ave been na snow. storm; nevertheless, this same air deployed widely and insuring fal: and warmer weather for days after the ptorm allows the Tapid melting of the snow. In winter the sun is so weak amd Lhe weather changes so rapid that such a stow could be but partially melted before the next storm broke. .Bmith's Falls residents are com- plaining of the bill board nuisance and want them suppressed. . The Glenora ferry is again in ser- vice. The boat has been completely overhauled. Secretary, American Me goal ro Boctety, Tells How. i. 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