£2 gs OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: P. Ouider, 33 St John St, Montreal Torente. WW. King St. W. Letters the Editor are published only over the actual same of the Attached is one of the best job b offices in Canadas. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Buresn of Ofrculations A word to the wise is offen re- sented: Where you start doesn't matter. tis what you start. Some boys are small for their age. 80 are some men. Never stop swatting files until you rin out of them. One who claims to be a perfect 36 is not speaking of her age. An onion is a seed that took ad- vantage of its opportunities, Never doing things by halves is fine, unless you eat grapefruit. The standpatter is safe so long as the people will stand patter, Acting that way to get. a tip is pervility; doing it to get votes is S-------- . " rT good way to preserve » ir health is to stop worrying about "Hint to the ladies: The thing that divides a well-matched team is a tongue. r The reparations experts found about everything in Germany ex- - cept a contrite heart, Old-fashioned ' courting couples _ pulled the shades down; moderns put the curtains up. Every man exerts an influence for good or bad, but only the few can get money for it. Adem would have fallen anyway 'whén he degan gardening and turn- ed up a fish worm. Btill, no party can make the cdun- , try very mad by preventing the Passage of more laws, LS ---- Another thing that encourages us .0 awake and breathe the early morning alr is the early-morning fly. ¥ ---- Investigators have at least demon- ,strated that birth control -ghould Save been practiced fifty years ago. Home is a place where one can git by the Hving room fire to peel po- tatoey or clean spark plugs. . A It these advertised chemicals kill _ mouth odors, it might be well to try them on the breath of scandal. o 3 -------------------- "lor waiving, of honest individual opin- and the date of the discovery of ino- JHE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ~ AN INDEPENDENT PRESS. All interests are eternally seeking to secure "a united press" in support of their individual purposes. Press committees, pubMcity men, organiza~- tions, campaigns are engaged in the attempt to "Hne-up" the newspapers in their behalf, recognizing the ad- vantages to themselves in a press thus focused. The intention is no doubt amiable, but the method is open to serious objection. It suggests a suppression, don. Moreover, the effort to bring the entire press into line for some project always tends to defeat itself. Cynical observers infer that the edi- tors and proprietors have been be- sought or persuaded by people hav- ing a common interest in some enter- prise or municipal or state proposal. If a union of newspaher opinion has seemingly been effected, that very fact makes against the desired in- on the public mind. Inde- pendent expression of convictions strongly held, with a fearless advo- cacy of what is believed to be right, without regard to what others may say, carries much more weight than could an artificial agreement to take the same point of view all round. If newspapers can be got all to say the same thing about a policy that is good, the danger is that they may also be led to unite in support of measures that are harmful. That is the great reason why the idea of securing "a united press" ought to be frowned upon as injurious to the press itself, and inconsistent with the true conception of its funetion, Newspapers deserve and win respect wher they "utter their own belief, in- stead of trying to attain a consensus which in the nature of the case must seem forced and therefore feeble. In this sense the press is strongest when divided in judgment. Newspapers depart from their true province when they go about to create an apparent solidarity of opinion. Befter results will come from each one standing valiantly by its own principles, and trusting that the sounder arguments will win in the long run. Whatever may be sald about the amalgamation of newspaper properties, brought about by economic necessities, there 'ought to be no countenance, in the interest whether of journalism or of public life, for the amalgamation of newspaper opinion. OLD STUFF. In reading the history of science and pondering on the advance of civilisation it is habitual with man to compare the predominance of mo- dern inventions and discoveries. Un- conséiously this generation sometim- es gives itself credit for eome achievement which was the gift to mankind of another age. A case In point is the origin of thé custom of vaccination or imoeu- lation. How many are there who think otherwise than that this safe- guard to human life is a discovery of modern medicine? It can safely be sald that those who know the true age of this medical discovery are negligible in number and limited mostly to the medical profession it- self. Some evidénce of the relative an- tiquity of inoculation is furnished by Voltaire in his "English Letters" written in 1726, There he wrote that since time immemorial the Christian mothers inoculated their daughters to preserve their lives and beauty that on maturity they could be profitably sold into the eeraglios of Turkey and Persia. Their crude method of inoculation was the mak- ing of an incision in the arm of the child, inserting therein a smallpox pustule from a vietim of that disease. 'Where the Circassions learned the art of vaccination is uncertain, but it is probable that it was from the Arabians. From the Arabians the practice has beer traced back to the Chinese. Some ancient archive o the ancient Chinese may some day reveal the name of the discoverer culation. Modernity can lay claim to greatly improving upon the me- thod of vaccination but is in danger of contradiction if it boasts of the original discovery. The antiquity of the custom imme- diately raisés the question why mo- dern medicine has not found a sub- stitute for vaccination which would no} necessitate the inoculation of the person with the same germs which it is intended the patient should not contract? Isn't the twentieth century now evolving such a substitute in universal sanitation and sterilisation? Modern cleanli- ness may some day attain that point of perfection where the germ ene- mies of man will have béen extermi- nated and the need of the vaccina- tion antidote eliminated. IMPERIAL RELATIONS, ~~ Ever sincé the MacDonald govern- ment came into power in Great Brit- ain, there has been much speculs- tion as to what action would be taken reg the recommenda by the conference of Em- premiers and . representatives last fall. It has been this i f ; I | He i § it i =§ £ i § i F | 3 i théde proposals, and to submit legis- lation covering them to the House of Commons at an early date. This decision shows that the Mac- Donald government is seized with the importance of maintaining the closest of imperial relations bef een the various parts of the Bri Em- pire. It would have been a real dis- aster had the recommendations of this conference been absolutely ignored by the government. It would have meant that the conference had been an entire waste of time and money, and that it would have been just as well if it had never been held at all. The overseas dominions would have placed only one construc- tion on any refusal to consider the findings of the conference, and that construction would not have been very favorable to the maintenance of good imperial relations. Canada, in common with many of the other nations within the Empire, has much to gain by having the re- commendatoins put into effect. The proposed tariff preferences which were agreed upon by the former British government were all to the advantage of this country, and would give a-stimulus to trade with the mother country. Othér agreements reached all tend to bring the over- seas dominions into the position of active partners in the great common- wealth of free nations which com- prises the Empire. The Labor gov- ernment has, very wisely, realized the value of this partnership. With- out it, the Empire means very little. With it, the Empire is the greatest force in the world of to-day. Any- thing, therefore, which binds that partnership together more firmly is to b& welcomed. The Labor govern- ment is prepared to do its part by bringing in the necessary legislation to put the agreements into effect. That this legislation will pass can be accepted without saying, because the recommendations were made with the concurrence of the represen- tatives of the former Conservative government, and the members of that party can hardly oppose them now that they are to be implemented by legislation. THE VALUE OF AN AUDIT. The condition in which the King- ston township council finds its fin- ances shows clearly the value of a proper audit. The old-fashioned method of paying a couple of men a few dollars to check over the books of a municipal treasurer after the year's transactions are complete is useless. An ipdépendent and fully qualified auditor is the man whom every municipal council should en- gage to put the searchlight upon its dealings. The city council of King- ston has one such in its permanent service, and he calls a spade a spade, Every transaction must be 1a order before he will permit payment of a dollar of the people's money. Auditor Mufr also set the county of Fronte- nac's house in order, and the result 1s that Frontenac's financial busi- ness, which is in the hands of a most capable treasurer, is right up to date, and the council, the treasurer and the people are all protected. The township of Kingston has retained an antiquated audit system, notwith- standing that the city of Kingston has highly qualified auditors. King- ston's givic auditor has been delving into the township books for the past two months and hgs' discovered ehortages. So-called suditors have certified the books as correct year by year when they were not right. No doubt they did thair best but they were wholly unqualified for the work of auditing accounts, particularly municipal ones, for municipal book- keeping is a difficult thing--far more dificult than bank book-keeping. Ovet twenty years ago the city of Kingston was in a similar position to that of the township of Kingston. Its tax collecting system was ineffi- cient but this was soon remedied and the cfty council, persuaded by the late Alderman Robert Meek, decided to adopt the plan of having a per- manent. auditor and a continuous sudit. The present enquiry into the township's finances will yield much to the ratepayers if it does nothing and he is importing U. S. material of strange devises, which can't be duplicated here unless local manu- facturers get costly new plant to do mere odd jobs. Most other recant orders for railway apparatus seem to have gone abroad, including S. A.'s order for a dozen motor-trains and N.8. Wales' Zar 50. Sydney hopes to have its harbors spanned in time by an imported bridge. Hosiery and other mills are in difficulties ow- ig to huge importations of goods from countries with high tariffs and cheap currencies, and of goods which get a superficial finish in England and then come here under shelter of the British preference. The arrival of a vessel with 'maize from the highly-colored Union of South Af- rica was noted the other day. Even prohibition and bootlegging may arrive from overseas almost any moment.--8ydney Bulletin. That Body -- of Dour "By James W. Berton, M.D, The Substitute For Golf. Golf clubs are so numerous thesa days that one might get the idea that everybody plays golf. And yet when you come to think about it, a golf club can have but a few hundred members at most. This means that the largest city with thirty clubs down to the small town with but one, really touch less than one in a hundred of their population. I don't want to talk apout golf this time except to say that it is a wonderful outdoor game, if you are willing to acquire the art gradual- ly and naturally, and not keep too tensed all the time trying to re- member all your instructions. What I had in mind was the in- dividual who didn't play golf, be- cause of lack of time and money. The big benefit from golf is the walking in the outdoor alr. Yau walk because you have something to make you walk. There is sn incen- tive. You are just the sort of an in- dividual that wouldn't walk three miles in a week, and yet you'll cov- er the three or more miles of the course during a game, and think nothing of fit. > And what about you, who do no¥ play? You can't get the mental relaxa- tion, that should, but doesn't al- ways come, with golf. But it you can't afford 'he time or money surely you ¢an supply your own incentive. . And that is what? That you'll get just. what the olf enthusiast 4s Fest) C That is good health, ercise. . And my, suggestion is what? That as you can't spare a couple of hours ¢r mn afternoon for golf two or three days 4 week, that you can pet-just as much exercise and ia the outdoors also, by a very simp. le method. Simply decide that Jou'll walk daily to and from the office, store, or factory, or if the distance is too great then a part of the way. Don't just amble along, but stép out at a brisk pace, making your stride just a few inches more than usual by swinging the legs from the hips, with a little less bending .at the knees. What is this ging to do for you? Well, the only thing that Nature has provided to purity your blood and to burn up the wastes in 'your body is the oxygen in the air. .The heavy meal you ate at dinner time last night, or the extra food you took at bedtime, or at a party, has had no chunce to be properly used, because you've been lying in bed all night. It has been deposited in your tissues as fat, some is in in- testine as waste matter, and the blood is still tarrying some of it around. You take that morning and even- ing walk and what happens? If you are fat some of your fat is used up. It you are thin some of the ma- 'terial in the blood goes to make some muscle for you by meens of the exercise of walking. Remember -~«You have a eal incentive--Good Health. ' Genuine collar. for - $2.95 Sizes 14 to 17. TWO BIG SPECIALS Suits with Extra Pair Trousers Neat Pattern Tweeds and Cheviots With extra Trousers. Neo. 1004--No. 1006---for MEN'S SHIRT SPECIAL by NOBBY SHIRTS English Broad- cloth, Tricotines with separate Regular $4.00 value, FINE SHIRTS Tovlke, Arrow and Lang makes. Sizes 14 to 174. All new patterns, fast colors. Reg- BIBBY'S have their cows shingled over to preserve them from the rain which thus penetrated to their milk. The mayor requested gentlemen to examine petitions before they pre- sented them and not waste the time of the council with such absurdities. | WHY-THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS oan Msteorologlas) lls How, - Drouth In California. Californians, and the rest of us, who eat California fruits and vege- tables, should rejoice in the ap- parent ending of southern Call. fornia's drouth some weeks before the dry summer begins. Oranges, as well as California industries, must depend on water impounded in win- ter for their juice in simmer. it is hard for easterners, whose papers have been full of flood news and who have hardly got over bhe- ing stuck ip the mud of a wet spring, to appréciate how dry California has been this winter. Perhaps, however, some people still remember the dryness of last summer and fall in the northeastern section, and can recall empty reservoirs, dry springs, and driving cattle miles for their drink, From October 1st to the middle of March southern California had re- ceived but one-fifth to one-third the average rainfall, while northern California had about two-fifths the average. Rains during the last two weeks of March and first week In April, however, totaled nearly double to more than treble the amounts that fell in the preceding six months in southern California, but hardly half of the state. Even with these accessions, however, the rainfall of the winter's wet season is general- ly but half of the average. The water stored in the snows' of the Sierras at the end of the winter was the least in many years. REV. W. K. BURR. Plcton Times Rev, W, K. 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