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BRITISH WHIG| 91ST YEAR. | MONEY IN' CHICAGO. The power of money is probably greater in Chicago than, anywhere else in the world, a fact which is not without its bearing on the sordid murder care which is now absorbing the interest of newspaper readers {and of students of modern psycho- ! logy. {of influence, { { | | | i remind the rich man that his money | alone will not bring him everything. semi-Weekly by WIG PUBLISHING | the circumstances of its birth gave | are almost unlimited. KINGSTON, ONT. . .President Editor and ng-Director 248 | paver questioned during their life- | increase in the productivity .of the their | West and a decrease in its cost of ..2012 2613) 2614 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ¥ rit Edition) * year, in © . year, by mail to rurai offices, $2.50 year, to United States $3.00 Semi-Weekly Edition) » Sas year. by mail, cash .. a r, to United States | REPRESENTATIVES: John St, Montreal 100 King St. W. t i Toronto Letters to the Editor are published or the actual mame of the Attached is ome of the best job ting offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH HIG is authenticated by the Audit Bureau of Circulations ~ No land ever begins going to the dogs until its citizenship has time #0 be bored. -------------- . Modern parents can get by if they "listen carefully to the 'admonitions if their children. Faith will save you in the end, Dut at present it is a good idea to" "Mire a lawyer. "Equality won't be so bad. Doubt- Jess a steel helmet will look good on a bobbed head. A public official's religion does- n't matter so much so long as it is opposed to stealing. Not everybody has a child of ten months to brag about, but anybody can buy a radio set. As a general thing, however, drug dicts wouldn't be worth a whoop even if they were not. ~ Frequently a rich wife is like Mquor. You take her, not because 'you love her, but for the effect. At last the weather is warm enough to make men enjoy ridicu- lng women's comfortable clothes. It is estimated that automobiles have increased good roads 87 per gent. and bandits 76 per cent. Some public men can be trusted in all matters, and some think the newspapers should be censored. * A professor says that long legs are a sign of intelligence. At least they afford a means of getting there. . Genius is that which spends its outh living on crusts and its declin- fine years living on its reputation. When she says that her husband 't understand her, she means some cake-eater professes to. .® Another germ that should be iso- * {Jated is the one that delights to boast jot his conguest of femininé hearts, _ A sufficient commentary on man- ind is that everybody thinks sunsets 'are more spectacular than sunrises. ~ Hot-heads are a nuisance, of ! ; but a lot of people who keep ! their temperature from their In this country culture consists largely in the ability jo translate a an of fare into terms of something to eat. In spite of the' reported steady in- in the sale of silk stockings, mn stockings are not on their last yet. 4 There are not so many more things © do in a city, but one can do so x more without the neighbors getting wise. Another good way to protect the of your home is to spend an there occasionally. This to wives as well as to hus- y oh ar must be a strain on the college when she begins her '@wtiful not to feel superior to her hus- | who dropped out after passing entrance Ee | far from economical in respect of {extent as in the onecrop system. In no other great community is money so exclusively the source, of social position, of political power and of prestige. In| the other great centres of weaith on this continent there are aiways a few institutions, a few barriers, to | New York and Boston are old cities, | | with old aristocracies of blood and breeding, and the social inhuence of | these "aristocracies still strong. | San Francisco is not old but! is it an aristocracy of bold and ad- | venturous pioneers, whosp aszend- ancy, based upon qualities of cha- | racter proven under great stress, was times and is still wielded by descendants, without much regard | hibited no such adventurous cou- | rage as the Californians, and were never sifted by such a period of testing as the great goid rush of the "fifties. There is but liltle distine- tion, and no social or politica! indu- ence, attached to the status of an "Old Chicagoan" when that status is not associated with wealth. 1f a similar condition is in process of development anywhere else on the continent it is in Los Angeles, a community where the Loeh-Leopold crime would if anything have excit- ed less surprise than it did in Chi- cago. : The idea that wealth entitles its possessor to do as he likes is prob- ably: cherished with lcss difficulty, by those who have the wealth, in Chi- | cago than anywhere else. There is less to contradict - it. Even the Loeb-Leopold case affords, oun one side, a further confirmation of it; for out of some five hundred unde- tected murders of the past twelve months this one shines out as a daz- zling exception, simply because the victim was himself the son of weal- thy parents. The Chicago police will do what police can do to avenge the killing of your eon, if you have the necessary money to impel them to activity; but if yo? have no money, the murders committed against your family must go unavenged. This does not necessarily mean bribery; it merely means that among five hun- dred murders the police will natu- rally take a greater interest in those, which affect important persope, mea sured by the Chicago standard. It now remains to be seen whether wealth can also procure the immu- nity of the confessed murderers. At least, the parents of the murderers have very naturally avowed their de- termination to see whether it can, and to use the last penny of their joint fortunes in thie effort. Other admirers of the power of gold will 'watch their efforts with interest and sympathy, and might even ehip in with financial support if the sum should seem likely to prove inade- quate. For if money can buy the right to commit a cold-blooded, col- laborated, calculated and callous killing without punishment, then there is not much left that it cannot buy--in Chicago. * GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE WEST. The whole economic life of Can- ada is so largely dependent, since the establishment of our vast trans- portations systems between east and west, on the power of the west to produce exportable goods, that the profoundest interest should be felt by every part of eastern Canada in the theory which has recently been promulgated, that continued cropping with wheat is not as hither- to supposed destructive to the land on which it is carcied on. A well known farmer and economist of Calgary, Mr. C. H. Peterson, has been publishing the results of cer- tain experiments with supposedly worn-out lands in western Canada, and reports that they were found to contain a greater amount of plant food than the virgin prairie soils in their immediate vicinity. Previous experiments on soil destruction have always been made on lands in Europe or New England, where the continuous cropping was associated with heavy rainfall; and the theory of Mr, Peterson and his scientists is that the rainfall rather than the cultivation is responsible for the wearing out of the soil, by leaching out the mineral salts and carrying them away in rivers to the sea. Cul- tivation, of course, acts as an ald in this process merely by loosening the surface and making the leach- ing more rapid and effective than under natural vegetation. Needless to say, this is news of the most cheering kind for everybody interested in. the prosperity of the Canadian West. For while mixed farming is doubtless the best and most economical kind of agriculture 80 far as the soll iy concerned, it is labor, whith cannot, in mixed-farm- ing operations, be replaced by ma) chinery to anything ike the same And as labor will not for eeveral the West in comparison with land | machinery, the mixed-farming pre-| ! cept' has always been looked upon by | the western farmer as a counsel of | # administered usually by little idea of the in following it. perfection, those who had difficulty involved Mr. Peterson adds to this pleasant news of the imexhaustibility of the wheat-raising powers of the il arid portions of the West, the Tur- ther optimistic prediction that we are on the eve of the introduction of further labor-saving devices in prairie farm operation. What these may be we are not informed, and some of us doubtless supposed that the prairie farmer was already ex-| tensively supplied with such things; | but Mr. Peterson probably knows of | what he speaks, and the possibilities of the internal-combustion engine Even with- out any great increase in the den- sity of the western population, therefore, we may, if this discovery | is correct, look forward to a steady 8 production. And since the price of | to the magnitude of their fortunes, | wheat cannot well fall much fur- The original settlers of Chicago ex- | ther, this looks like a forecast o ? prosperity for the west and for all of Canada. Economic laws are always ironie. A West that is not prosperous be- cause it needs more population will | not get more population. A West | that is prosperous to the extent of | not greatly needing more popula- | | tion will get more population, and will not suffeg, thereby--at any rate until it is much more overcrowded than we shall ever see ft. | ones | HOW POPULATION DECLINES. Mr. Robson Black, manager of the | Canadian Forestry Association, calls | attention to one very urgent reason for forest comservation, viz. its ef-| {fect on population. In an article | from his pen we read of conditions in Eastern Ontario, of which we are | all only too familiar. Depopulation | has been going on steadily in certain | districts due to the depletion of our | forest wealth. | A vivid and authoritative instance | of this depopulating process has | come to the notice of the present writer. Here is an Ontario district known as the Madawaska river dis- trict. Fifty years ago lumbering on the Madawaska and Bonnechere rivers was at its best. Twelve com- | panies and individuals were then operating. In 1873 and 1875 they took millions of feet of pine and rafts of timber to Quebec. At that time they considered nothing less than fifteen inches and up, and all clear stuff. Later on they took it down as low as eight inches. The square timber was all hewn by hand. Thriving and populous towns came into existence and rapidly ex- panded. One of the towns had two hotels, three stores, two blacksmith shops and a population of five hun- dred. It has now one general store, two hotels, one sawmill and a popu- lation of about fifty. --Amother of thc towns had four hotels, eight stores, three sawmills and a population of about eight hundred. It has now two hotels, four stores, a power plant and a population of about three hundred. Another town had in 1903 a popu- lation of several hundred, the exact number not being known, five stores, three hotels (worth fifteen thousand dollars) and two hundred thousand logs in thé annual drive. In 1923 the population had dwindled to six- ty, with three stores, two hotels (worth four thousand dollars) and one-tenth the number of logs in the drive. In non-agricultural areas; the per- manence of population is directly measured by the permanence of "timber crops;" and the outstand- ing foe of timber crops is the human- get forest fire. PRESS COMMENT Mutual Advantage, > 'There is one reason why the new French Government will probably be ready to co-operate with the Bri- tish without tying up the Dawes scheme in too many of the ingenious knots by which a lawyer can make any scheme unworkable. The Al- lies have to reckon with the diffi- cult and doubtful elements in Ger- many. The collapse of M. Poincare may encourage those elements. But it England and France are agreed they can make it certain that Ger- many will do her part. The best way of assuring the co-operation of Germany is to show that France can co-operate with England. Such co- operation becomes possible the mom- ent that France récognizes that the Experts' scheme is not more essen- tial to British interests than it is to her own.--Manchestef Guardian. ------ A Dangerous Fallacy. No more dangerous fallacy ever misled the world of labor than the idea that if a man does as little as possible there will be work for a second man as well. The American workman who does as much as ever he can in a day, helps to soive the problem of unemployment far more than the English workman who prac- tides the 'ca' canny" policy. Large and cheap production makes work for others. Small and expensive uction swells the ranks of the unemployed. What South Africa needs is hard work and efficiency, so that its output of everything will be generations to come be plentiful in Increased. And then the unempioy- JHE DAILY | seen suffering for months with rheu- | matism, meets you some morning | { which are know where we can find jaformation to obey. BRITISH ed will begin to find more and more | jobs cropping up for them. Aecond- ing to thes ca' canny school the less man does the more there is for others to do. Therefore if nobody did anything there would be work for everybody! Which is absurd.-- Johannesburg Sunday Times. The Day of the Reformer. Within the last two or three years there has been a marked revival of interest in policies promoted by la- | bor, and weakening of the bonds of! the old political parties. Today in | several European countries, as well! as in England, those who favor poli- cies which a few years ago would | have been generally regarded as! extremely radical, if not dangerous, | are now in the ascendant. Four of | the six Australian States, as well as New Zealand, have Labor govern- ments. Even in the eastern coun- | tries the tendency is toward a mark- ed departure from the conservatism | of centuries. * Just how far the pre- | sent wave will go, and what it will | accomplish along the line of politi- | cal policy and social reconstruction, | it would be idle to attempt to pre- | dict. It has at least had the effect | of arousing the interest of all the | people in social and political prob- | lems to a very great extent and this can only be described as a healthy condition in any country or in the world at large.--St. John Telegraph- | Journal. | By James W. Barton, M.D, Why the Difference? A friend of yours whom you have | | | | | looking much better, and with| scarcely the sign of a limp. | You ask him what cleared up his | rheumatism, and he informs .you | | that after having an X-ray of his | teeth, he had three removed and be- | gan to get better almost at once. { Perhaps you have an attack of] rheumatism and your dentist and | doctor find some bad teeth. You have them removed, but you don't immediately see much improvement. | You begin to wonder if there is | anything in this '"bad teeth" busi- ness, that is so popular with dentists and doctors. However, in a few weeks or even months you do see an improvement, an improvement that is slow but| nevertheless real. Now why did your friend get such quick relief, and you come along so slowly? : Well, when pojson is manufactur- ed at the root of the teeth, it some- times gets directly into the blood current and sets up the trouble in| the joints and elsewhere, ,You have the bad teeth removed and so no further poison is manu- factured. Nature gets a chance then to carry | away the poison from any part be- cause of this fact. This explained why your friend secured almost immediate relief from pain. However, in your case you may be a bit stronger physically, or your tissues re-act to the poison different- ly, and the result is that after the poison leaves your teeth," it settles in some of your glands. You have seen swollen glands in the neck, usually due to poison from the teeth or tonsils. They may not be swollen sufficiently for you to notice them always. From these glands the poison goes into the blood apd is taken to the joints and other parts. Hence, even after the teeth, or the tonsils are removed, you can rea- dily see that you still have all the poisons in these glands to get out of your system. So don't feel badly if you don't get results as quickly as your friend. " You may have a more virulent poison in you, you may have glands that still contain poison. Even the | intestine itself may be falling down in getting rid of the poisons. That is, the poison remains so long in the large: intestine that it is not removed quiekly enough to pre: vent the blood absorbing too much | of it. So be patient for a few months. CHOOSING THE LEADER. William Ernest Hocking in the July Yale Review. Men choose leaders as they choose their other elemental necessities, by instinétive response. Through their own sense of inner emptiness and groping, they are attracted to confid- ence, assurance, achievement, to the man with an idea which clearly mas- ters experience, or with a personality which masters and places ideas. If there is any chance that the human spirit may assert itselt in the world, people are always ready to become sharers in that event, and let the man of destiny take charge of them. There is, in. faet a disposition, for the most part subconscious, to choose leaders in the hope that our habits will be corrected. It is easier to have one's habits corrected by the aid of an external requirement than to correct them oneself, by sheer moral heave; and the lurking wih to have them corrected is insepar- able from human nature. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we upon it. Where justice reigns "tis freedom WHIG FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 192% Athletic Underwear $1 need it UY it now! Why wait till mideum- mer? If you do, you will miss half a season's en- joyment of your suit. Let us slip the Sydney on you. You can't imag- ine anything more com= fortable. Ty B SEE OUR YOUNG MEN'S SPORT MODEL SUITS At $18.50 Smartly tailored garments in new shades: Tan,"Grey or Bronze. We have some attractive bar- gains in city property. A good list of farms and garden lands. Fire Insurance, first class company. Money to logn on mortgages. T. J. Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance 68 BROCK ST., KINGSTON Phones 332J and 1797J. KINGSTON IN 1851 Viewed Through Our Files Decorations Prohibited. Jan. 29.--On Friday, the 7th of February, the City Band, alias the Brass Band, intend to give a public ball in the City Hall, under the pat- ronage of Captain Strange and his troop of militia cavalry, and the fire brigade--all to appear in full uni- form. We are pleased to hear of these public entertainments, because they exhibit a desire to enliven the | dullness of this most horribly dull winter. In granting the necessary permis- sion, it is to be hoped that the city authorities will prohibit the pollu- tion of the council chamber by the introduction and erection of filthy pine bushes, as was the case at the recent mechanic's festival. If man- agers and decorators wish to indulge in this morbid taste they should make application for the use of the | unoccupied butcher's stalls (in the market). These are sufficiently large for the purpose, and by flags, transparencies and pine bushes, | might be rendered handsome and im- posing. But the beautiful city hall wants no extraneous aid to adorn it; | it is the handsomest room in British North America, and should be allow- ed so to remain. Cold Snap. Jan, 31.--The weather was 80 ex- tremely cold all day yesterday that our editor could not write--his fin- gers were frozen, his ink was frozen and his sides were frozen. Our read- ers lose little, however, by the frost, for he has nothing to write about. The weather was so cold as to de- prive two individuals of life. Mr. Edmund Smith, once a flourishing blacksmith of Kingston, and always the best tarrier living in it, was found dead in a shed opposite Mr. Peter Hanley's tavern. The other was a soldier belonging to the Rifle Brigade, who was frozen to death in returning to barracks. The weather (25-30 degrees below zero) is the coldest for ten years. (This seems to contradict the general belief that the climate of Kingston was much more rigorous in the old days than it Is at presemt.) NEW SHIRTS AT VERY TEMPTING PRICES English Broadcloths--White, Tan, Cream, Blue or Grey. Sizes 11 to 163%. $2.95 POTTER'S ENGLISH PRINTS Neat Stripes, small Checks. Some with soft Collars to match. $2.50 BIBBY'S -- RITISH AMERICAN HOTEL In Public Service Since 1784. M. BOHAN, PROPRIETOR, KINGSTON. --~ of the Great Lakes and the adjacent territory from trading with the British settlers to the south. Fron- tenac himself journeyed to the mouth of the Cataraqui River for its «establishment. He was accom- panied by his engineer, Raudin, who speedily drew up plans for the fort, anfl on this day in 1673 began its construction. The men were divided into parties under their offi- cers. One party felled trees, an- | other dug trenches, another hewed palisades and soon the work was well under way. To despel the suspicions of the Indians, while the fort was in erection, the aristrocratic Frontenac dined with the savage chiefs, fondled their children, feast- od their squaws and watched with interest their damces which = were intended to indicate their gratitude. The fort cost about 10,000 francs to establish, and it was a week's journey from 'the mnearest settle- ment. Thus did France make its | first advance into the great west of Canada. | WHY THE WEATHER? | DR. CHARLES FF. BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorological Hoctety. Tells How. "Lows" Cooler Than "Highs" in P Summer. | In summer, the cloudy, rainy weather is typically cooler than the | clear, sunny spells. In winter, quite | the other way, the clear periods of | "highs" bring the coldest weather, | while 'lows' are relatively warm. Perhaps the temperature of any | particular day can be thought of as| dependent largely on wind direction, heating by the sun, and cooling by radiation. Winter "lows" are rela- tively warm because they have sou- Itherly wins and because the cloud | blanket prbvents cooling by radia- | tion. In winter, the temperature differences between North and | South are much greater than in| summer, and the winds are stronger, | hence wind direction is a very im-| portant temperature comtrol. ini summer, heating by sunlight plays 2 larger role and winds are weaker than in winter. Thus, cloudy wea-| ther is likely to be cool weather. In | case of "highs." similarly, we find the controlling features in winter, the cold, dry northerly wind and rapid cooling by radiation at night make them relatively cold, while in summer feeble winds and heat from a blazing sun cause "highs" to be typically warm, It is one wish to have truth oa our side and another to wish sin- cerely to be on the side of truth. | "Ibe Athletic 25 BIBBY'S Underwear $1.25 STRAW HATS Something very classy. $1.95 All new ' shapes and weaves. Sizes 63% to 74. The Creative Machine Shop This machine shop is nbt alto- gether merchanical. Our equipment. represents the most modern mechan- ism, yes--but we employ men who are capable of suggesting and exe- cuting shop work of distinctive qual- Bishop Machine Shop KING AND QUEEN STREET» In bulk or package. Special varieties of Sw Pea, named Spencers. oot 'Queer. City' Law rass Seed. na 'Shady Nook' Grass Seed. ---for under the trees and corners of the lawn, Sarg Or. Chown's Drug Store 185 Priucess Street. Phone 343 J --------e------. GURD'S Ginger Ale, Dry Ginger Ale, Apple Nectar, Champagne Kola, Soda Water. / The scason is here and we | are all ready for it. Jas. REDDEN & CO. PHONES 20 and 990, of Satistaction™ recat THE WEATHER MAY SEEM FAIR AND WARM--BEFORE THE COMING OF A STORM ! 'RAWFORD'S CTT EAAT HEN the weather seems mild and balmy at this time of the year it may be bluffing. 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