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Prime Minister of New Brunswick, also Mr. Doucet, Mr. Jones, Gen. Ross, of Kingston, and Donald Suth- erland. And when the winch complies with their demand, some of the self same politicians wax tragic | over the impending doom to Cana- | dian industries. Hear Horatio C. Hocken, M.P., speak in the Orange oa LESSONS IN ENGLISH WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Don't say "there is no use of me going." Say "of my going." 4 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: absent. first syllable, verb on last syllable. Accent the adjective on year, to Unifed "TOWN REPRESENTATIVES: NTO ."W. Thompson, 100 King 'West, Toronto. ters to the Editor are published over ihe actus! name of the The British Whig bY the Audit Bureau of PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH. The three-hour speech of the 'Prime Minister of Canada on the . Was a masterpiece. It was a lant defence of the Government's ition, full of optimism and in- on backed up by facts that no A was made to contradict. Because of the fact that Con- live speakers and writers In \ and out, with little regard the true facts of the case, per- in talking blue ruin, somé imagine that Canada really is # bad way. Those who are not of the dmprovement that has mn made in the country's condition the Mackenzie King Govern- should get & copy of Hansard read every word of the Prime r's eloquent address. ; King pointed out that the n by its economical policy been able to reduce the public litles from $76,000,000 in 1922, 5,000,000 last year. He also ed the public accounts and that spendings had been cut 0,000,000 since 1921, when ratives were in power. the balance of trade--an barometer of conditions-- Minister pointed out that , 1922, 1923, and 1924 the balances in manufactured were $264,000,000., $120,- $59,000,000, and $47. , whereas in 1925 the bal- reversed, and there was a 000 excess of exports. These are most significant and beyond peradventure of that the King Government i government. $ that is not all. Mr. King pro- to show the proud position a was attaining under careful management. He pointed Canada's trade balance of 10,000 was in excess of that , country to the south of us, 'which we hear so much, whose balance last year was $352. King shattereda lot of Con- arguments about Liberal being injurions to in- when he pointed to the fact 'since the reductions in the agricultural implements in at the present time, and showing a'steady increase. ement export trade had in- from $5,845,000 in 1971, to 41 despite Mr. Meighen's 'of blue ruin. The 1924 declared, had brought implements. A group it $928. 50.4n 1924, cost"$860 "Whatever else may be done with the customs tariff at the next session Séntinel in November, 1923: - | of parliament there should be a sub- | stantial reduction in the duty on mo- tor cars. It is clear from the prices quoted in the United States and Can- ada that the Canadian manufactur- ers are charging 'all the trafic will stand. The duty of thirty-five per cept. is more than protection. It is in part a government subsidy to the makers of automobiles. of motor cars in Canad are soaking | the public unduly, and it is the duty | of the government to lower the tariff, and in that way inject a little com- petition of American firms that will bring down the prices." But in the parliament of 1926 it | was Mr, Hocken"s conviction that the government proposed '"'a cut that, in my opinion, is calculated seriously to impair one of the basic industries of : this country." Gen. Ross and Mr. Hocken voted against the budget adopted. both just PROJECT OF A MOSLEM LEAGUE. THE The project of a Moslem League of Nations as separate from the exisi- ing f.eague of Nations is challenging and, if it succeeded in coming into being, might be a terrible threat to the peace and progress of the world, writes Mr. Basil Mathews in the New Outlook. The idea of such a League is actually being mooted and is dis- cussed in many a cafe and caravan- serail all across that Moslem world, which stretches from Morocco over North Africa and half Asia, through the Dutch East Indies to the Ameri- can Philippines. It becomes acutely topical at the moment hecause the great Sheik of the El Azhar Univer- sity has called a meeting at Cairo, from all Moslem nations to elect a new Caliph. In this movement the whole Brit- ish empire is obviously involved, for it is by .far the greatest Moslem power in the world, seeing that there are well over ninety million Moslems in the British empire out of a total in the world of less than two hun- dred and fifty millions. Holland and France come next with more than fifty million Moslems. Actually there are barely thirty million Moslems under Moslem rule to-day, of only one-eighth of the total. All the rest are under Christian governments. The masterful men who would control such an Islamic League of Nations are in fact the most pictur- esque, powerful and dramatic figures on the world's horizon to-day. Looking at this unique array of new nationalist © Moslem leaders (Abd-el-Krim, Zoghloul Pasha, Ibn Saoud, Riza Shah Pehlevi, Mustapha Kemal) we see three things clearly. First, that for the first time in history, nationalism in the Moslem world is stronger than the Brother- hood of "The House of Islam." The old Pan-Islamic scheme is torn to nationalistic shreds. Secondly, there is so far no sign of alliance between them. Kemal and Ibn Saoud are as antagonistic in personality and policy as Mussolini and Stresemann. Saoud's alliance is with Britain. And neither Kemal nor Baoud would accépt King Fuad of Egypt as Caliph; while Pehlevi of Persia is a Shiah who utterly dis- owns all Sunnite Caliphs. Thirdly, however, if the Western powers try to dominate and exploit these nations we shall force them into forming a League against West- ern Christendom. We should then have all the horror of the Crusades without their religion or romance , | and with the hell of poison-gas rain- ed down from aeroplanes. What remains for us to do? The diplomacy and the commerce of the west must discard all desire to dominate and exploit, and accept whole-heartedly the attitude of co- operation. They need us and we need them. Idealism! Yes, but Lord Grey has just told us in his "Twenty-five Years" that "lack of idealism in our relations with these people was a symptom of the cause of the disaster of the war." Above all (if we are to have a friendly Mos- lem world) we need to help them to train and equip a new leadership for peaceful self-government. The The makers | OFTEN MISSPELLED: WORD STUDY: To-day"s word: MOTIVATE; advantage." IN coerce, not se. SYNONYMS: anger, hate, hatred, animosity, enmity, aversion, | antipathy, hostility, grudge, dislike, malice, "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. to act as the motive for. ledge of the hidden facts that motivated their deeds gave him an "His know- -------------- er -------- -- | the creation of an anti-western Isla- | mie League of Nations, leading to a {race war. | bridges between us to make possible |a World-League that shall contain | us all. EDITORIAL NOTES. ' So long as the rubber planters don't strike and we can still get golf balls life won't be too utterly hopeless. The world's birth-rate is declining, with the exception of a certain class Barnum once said increased at the rate of one a minute. New York dealers who have been skimming the milk were perhaps working on the theory that by sav- ing the surface they saved all. Mother's Day is over for another year. Now there'll be nothing but the usual round of work, just as she's always done, says the Guelph Mercury. Some woman's--page editors are discussing---how little a woman can dress on. How little she can dress in has long since been solved, is the op- inion of the Brantford Expositor. An English express train carried United, States hotelmen at a rate of 83 miles an hour. That will give éven such hustlers as they are something to write home about. The New York World says: "The British are a people with a dignal capacity for emerging safely from even the most forbidding difficul- ties." A good thing for us to ré- member. This is the kind of weather that puts grit into the people of the west is a Winnipeg Free Press exultant announcement, One man at Carman reported that he had already taken two pecks. Canadians had 80,000 more cars last year than the year before, or an increase of 12.5 per cent. The total number registered was 719,306 against 639,202 the year before. This includes trucks as well as passenger ars. A Michigan man who has just ins herited $1,500,000 has decided that the first luxury he will indulge in is a telephone. If he has inherited a million and a half his line will be busy with persons telling him how to spend it. Dr. Emmet Holt insists that it 'is a part of the nation's duty to teach health as thoroughly, as regularly, as universally as it teaches reading and writing, Education without Health is well-nigh useless, and education gained at the expense of hefith is wasted effort. Some 1,389 banks involving dépo- sits of about $386,000,000 went to the wall during 1924 and 1925 in the United States, The cause, too many banks with small capital. The suspended banks averaged less than $40,000 in capital with $280,000 de- posits. Bankers could not exist on the small earnings. The Canadian bank- ing system is the peer of anything on this continent. or we can work to build | { therefore, her day is their day. Long LOOKING AROUND A landmark is disappearing in the demolition of the old horse livery bufidings at the corner of Brock and Bagot streets. The frame portion of the structure on the cormer was really ancient. But the place has outlived its usefulness, and to make it profitable, the hidtoric bullding must give way to something modern and useful. The corner will not seem the same to the older residents without the frame ramshackle. -- Readers of The Whig are very much pleased over the variety of this néwspaper's . comies. There are "Bringing up Father" and "Mr. and Missus" in full pages; "Freckles and His Friends," "Boots and Her Bud- dies" and "Bringing up Father" in strips; "Out Our Way" in cartoon and last and not least "What Figp- per Fanny Bays." Really this spring reminds one of old times, for our old friend the organ grinder is on the streets, Sty- les and tastes may have changed, but the old organ box and the man from eunpy Italy have not in the least. The beautifying of the new public library boulevard has beén started. The earth has been dug for a grass plot and soon the cormer will be decked with shrubbery and flowers. | "Our Gang" chose a very choice downtown location for their under- ground club house --close to the public library, Alege. Givens' weekly newspaper office and the Hotel Dieu. Should {irate presents make a raid, hospital treatment may be had very close by. Kingston rate payers do not care to be called out to vote on by-laws. Evidently they think it "out of sea- son," and prefer to do all their vot- ing at the yearly municipal eléctions, The vote of Monday last showed a lamentable lack of interest in civic matters. Baseball and the movies are better drawing cards. " RE ------ The eity council has acceded to the popular desire and proclaimed the 24th of May as our national spring holiday. Whether the day be fine or not we will once more live in the past by observing Victoria Day in honor of the greatest Queen Great Britain ever had. The descendants of Victoria still reign over us, and may Victoria Day be observed by the British Empire! The federal budget is passed and down go our taxes and the prices of automobiles. Whether we are Tories or Grits, we hold up both hands for a government that proposes to run the country on a lower tax. Our good friend, Prof. * ae MacPhail of Queen's University has made a hit down in the ¥ity of Que- béc by advocating the general teach- ing of French in Canada. The Que- bec liquor law also appeals to the professor, who recognizes in it something that can be enforced. Now it 1s up to Quebec to retutn the compliment to Queen's and to "say it" with dollars. Kingston is eighty years an incor- porated city, eighty-eight years an incorporated town and 253 years an established place at the junction of the mighty St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario. But why has King- Ay BUTDONE nich they 41 In 1hg ite of hoppers are small insects] the insect. found In most parts of the World. A8| In some, these ston not prospered like Little York (Toronto)? Because its inhabitants 125 years ago lacked the enterprise of the men who settled 160 miles to the west. . It was enterprise Lhat made Toronto what it :s today. Its early <settlers became. live traders, while* Kingston's settlers lived on the garrison, and did not exert them- selves. * News and Views. For Longer Berths. The Outlook: The Iowa man who secured legislation lengthening the sheets .on- hotel bedsteads, thereby comforting countless toes, still has work to do. He should get a Con- stitutional amendment to lengthen the berths in all Pullman sleeping cars six inches. It will save a great deal of hunching on the lengthy part of the human race in America Starvation Wages. Cléveland Bulletin: Profanity is a sign of rhetorical poverty. "Are you pald anything for swearing?" was once asked of a commercial trave- ler. "No, I do it for nothing." "Well," said the other; "you work cheap. You lay aside your character as a gentleman, inflict pain on yous friends, break a commandment and lose your own soul--and all for nothing!" Reaction To Come. Pembroke Observer: On a $2,600 Chrysler car the difference,in sell- ing price caused by the tariff is only $90. Will anyone seriously contend that such a cut is going to wreck the automobile industry in Canada? The simple fact of the matter is that the tariff change in this regard is being seized upon by Tory politicians and the Canadian Manufacturers' As- sociation to try to create sentiment in favor of high protection. But it will be a difficult task and the pres- ent agitation will have its re-action shortly. Elder's is the place for fireworks. A fleet of speed rum-boat chasers is reported to be on the way to the upper Niagara River. Castor Oil Once a Bogey--~Now a Bon-Bon! YKASTER JEMS," 25¢. package ara pure, tasteless Castor Oil in| delicious Chocolate Can- dies (with pineapple flavoring). Make your children happy and healthy. PANES PIARMC] wd EEPLE "GENERAL AUTOMOBILE REPAIRS OIL, GREASE AND ACCESSORIES. ROAD SERVICE. CYLINDERS HONED ON ANY MAKE OF CAR. LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES ON ANY REPAIRS, FOR SALE a National 13§ Ton Truck. No reasonable offer refused. & HALL NIGHT 'PHONE 2767. Yorkshire Fish and Chip Cafe We deliver ali day Sat. * Frank Haig's 18 MONTREAL STREET PHONE 2964. Hasivod Fors" | When you want that Hardwood Floor jaid, call up W. H. HUBBLE for a reas sonable price. Also all kinds of Oare penter and Jobing 31 PLUM ST. lig Yoko Brey 400 ALBERT STREET 'Phones 2207F----028W work. PHONE 1430-W. DR.J.C.W. 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