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THE DA ---- DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH A... BY W, L. GORDON , ; ~ WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Don't say "he generally. passes here during the morning." Say "usually." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: mediocrity, Pronounce me-di- ok-rit-i, the e as in "he," all {'s as in "it," o as In "of," accent third syllable. ILY BRITISH WHIG almost at our door: and it is mot B large' like a mountain or a landscape, but is rather a small place, but very lovely, hidden away where it is not readily seen. A small lake lying! among clean rocks, bowered in young forest, dotted with islands' which cover its shining surface like. chips of scattered emerald, Quiet; with sedgy bays and lonely bars of sandy beach; fed by hidden streams that i} a Delitle over little moss and fern OPTEN MISSPELLED: supereilious; cilf. Terqped waterfalls; d am the oO trees a a mt pa rod bo. SYNONYMS: proof, evidence, testimony, certainly, conclusion, and rcels and lures, and a rusty iron conviction, Reason. 2 : stove, and a frying-pan, end at the WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours." door a saw-horse and a bucksaw. Let us increase our vocabulary by mistering one word each day. You know a little lake like that Today's word: FANATICISM; extravagagit br frienzied seal; wild yourself; a fine little grand Canadian eBthusiasm, "He died as acrifice to the fanaticism of the times." lake--the country's full of them; . p- they are the spangles on the great . Canadian scene. EDITORIAL NOTES, b The Nebraska farmer who had his whiskers burned off by lightning had a close shave. SRER [Ee LEER | \ rn Quebec Viewpoint La Patrid'is concerned for the fu- ture of the Georglan Bay Canal. "The Georgian Bay Canal project was one in which the people of the Dominion formerly took a lively in- terest, but now {it is rarely heard of. Attention has been called to the pro- ject again by a question asked in the House of Commons which brought forth the information that there exists a private company which holds a charter that confers all the neces- sary powers for the construction of the canal. . This charter is dated 1894, but it will lapse if the com- pany does mot commence work be- | May 1st, 1927, and complete con- | i " : struction by May 1st, 1933. We do I i not know whether or not the com- pany intends to proceed with the work, but it seems to us that if the | | enterprise is to be undertaken it! ought to be done by the State in or- | | der that the canal may belong to the | Dominion Government and be ex- | | ploited in the Interests of the rouds other canals that {i taxicabs In New York by 621 per would be more appropriate, adds the HY, ap 2r¢ sl] Ihe oti our interior! [i HEN YOU HAVE A PRINT- ING JOB, DO YOU THINK OF THE BRITISH, WHIG COM- MERCIAL PRINTING ,DEPT.? Published Da BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING TED, KINGSTON, ONT. UPRRT DAVIES ...... President TELEPHONES Office ...... il Poomg ve CANNOT DISPLACE STREET CARS New York and Toronto are talk- ing. about the abandonment of trol- ley car lines in the down town sec- tions. Im New York enthusiasts are demanding that the city buy and scrap not only the surface lines but the elevated railways also, replacing both by busses. Toronto people talk of tubes and no street cars below St. Clair avenue. But the effusions of visionary people havesbeen discount. ed when the facts are tated. Be- tween 1945 and 1925 the number of Passengers carried in New York City by subway and elevated lines doubl- ed. But these lines did not replace the trolleys, whose patronage mean- while increased 11.5 per cent. and @mounted in 1925 to more than 1,- 000,000,000 passengers. In this period, however, a change was tak- ing place more significant and men- acing than either--the increase of frrrsensras eo Canada has gone back to the gold standard and so will Canada's lawns if the dandelions get their way. Female mosquitoes, infected with malaria, are being used to sting par- alytics. That should be enough to make anyone jump. SUPSORI ' your, 1000 87.50 Mn ey year, to United States .... .. $3.08 The Mount Forest Confederate and Representative has just celebrated its sixtieth birthday. That's a good age for a newspaper nowadays. Fine printing -- good service reasonable prices to the Editor are published -the actual mame of the 'The Boston Transcript comments: **'Lose a mMute and save a lite' is added to the list of other admoni« tions to motorists." It's a good one. 4 elreulation British 'W ~~ BEST IN YEARS. The Hamilton Herald calls the House of Commons a kaleidoscope. But with all the run-ins they've been having at Ottawa, collide-oscope A most cheering report on the June employment situation comes . from the department of trade and commerce. It is said that the situa The cent., of pleasure cars by 630 per " cent., of commercial autos by 381 Toronto Star, navigation utes" : Per cent, There, quite as much as | A household magazine says a. room | La Patrie speaks with kindliness | on the trolley-tracks, is the real Pro- may be freed from tobacco odor by |of American toleration. blem of New York street traffic. mixing formaldehyde, lemon oil, ey-| "The United States It would take 5,812 busses to re- calyptus ofl and alcohol and allowing | Nave not been remiss in calling ats place the 3,388 trolley-cars of New |it to evaporate slowly. This odor in York. It is difficult to see how sub- | turn may be eradicated with a strong stitution would serve safety or the cigar. convenience of general traffic, says the New York World. The bus skids in wet weather. It demands--and, | as every chauffeur knows, receives-- a wider berth from drivers of other vehicles than the trolley-car, which Is revénted from swerving by its rails. More costly per passenger- mile than the trolley-car, the bus cannot carry passengers over long 'routes for the 5-cent fard to which New York is so wedded that poli- tically it may be taken as almost an indispensable condition, even if de- ficits have continually to be met, as now, out of general tagation. New York need not concern itself with planning complete hus systems to carry more than a billion. /passen- gers a year. It will be more prac- ticable 80 to restrict parking and re- gulate general trafic that the indis- pensable trolley-cars will be able to make quicker time and serve the public even better than they do now. New York is not ready to dispense with any customary means of trans- portation on the surface, or above it, or below, It needs busses in addi. ition; and properiy'to place these will prove a difficult and complicated un- dertaking. ------ MADE A FINE RECORD, tion at the beginning of last month was "more favorable than on the ~ eorresponding' date in any of the last five years; in fact, the index number stands higher now than at any time #ince 1920." This news is featured by the ilton Spectator, a Conser- w¥ative paper. It is Interesting to that during the period quoted 6 Liberal government was in office: yearly, as Dr. Coue would "We were growing better better." In 1425 the high water of employment was reached. ceptions that have heen accorded to charistic Congress. This proclaims the great tolerance of the people. New York and Chicago acclaimed the representative of the Pope even more enthusiastically than they welcomed on different occasions ex- altéd persons, who were sent to Am- erica by France and England, not excepting even General Foch and the Prince of Wales. Chicago has had the honor of beipg the theatre of manifestations, whose splendor has "What's noise would be made this side of the line," The Boston Herald is candid enough to say, "if some city in Canada located on one of the Great Lakes were diverting water 'from the lakes at the rate of 10,000 cubic feet per second!" CALL FOR WIDER ROADS. Cape Vincent, N.Y., Eagle ses the problems of good roads, in it says that the country is now , mot with "paved roads" but wider ones. There are 500,000 of hard surfaced roads in the sd States and yet trafic 1s fm- , It insists that wider roads necessary . for two reasons; to e trafic to speed up, and to nt accidents. On many crowd- narrow roads a slow moving truck other vehicle will block traffic, to the fact that there is. little ortunity to pass such obstructions the rear. Tei Many states have already started remedy this situation; and on the jeiflc coast two-foet shoulders are built on each side of the road 'a few inches higher than the surface. These shoulders are le of either altic concrete or cement and "the space between is resurfaced... with asphaltic te. By this method, narrow nts are satisfactorily widened made thicker at a minimum ex- From now on, road widen- will be as important as road pav- The tendency is to make all new roads with less crown. 8 ON THE GREAT CANA- The administration of the late President" Woodrow Wilson was evi- dently the freest from corruption of any administration in American his- tory, exclaims the Springtield, Mass., Republican. That record is be- ginning to be chisled permanently on the tablets of time. the whole: world. More than one million Catholics assisted at this great festival. More than three: present. At the first Eucharistic Congress at Lille, In France, the attendance consisted of only several thousands of the faithful. It was not until 1908 that the Congress met in an English-speaking country. This was at Westminster, England. The reunion at Chicago is the sec~ ond, if we except the Congress which was held at Montreal in 1910. Chi cago now. knows-.the grandeur of Catholic Rome." The American Society of Teachers of Dancing disapproves of the Char- leston. They want it toned down. It is too acrobatic for the parlor or ballroom. Maybe it is. Yet without it, enquiries the Oswego, N.Y., paper, how would a lot of lounge lizards ever get enough exercise to digest their cake? Let every elector in Canada vote in the coming election. Those who stayed at home in previous elections and will vote this time, can give the Liberal party a great advantage and help establish a sound, stable: gove ernment. It was the Liberal Govern . ments that gave impetus to Ca- The other day a young woman at |nada in days gone by. New York University was pronounc- |: ed the best all-around athlete in that great institution. That was an in- teresting verdict. This prise athlete is also a prize student in her studies, She left the splendid Julia Richmond High School with the highest of hoti- ors. Capturing gold medals for Ein - scholarship has been her practice Beach, the well-known United | ever since, LOVE % She waa born in a rural commun- 4 w | ity, close to the sea. There she fearned to swim, to climb trees, to tan and play. In her later years she has gone to ber unele's farm in the mountains. The out-of-door lite has always appealed fo her. Her| doesn't laugh, T know" they're good city environment could not make her | ORes.--Stockholm Kasper. « x EE ---------- Morgan, NJ. will be. against vigorously by au | THE DOUGLAS LIBRARY 1 By Nathan Van Patten, Librarian of Queen's University. The present collections housed in this building approximate 176,000 volumes and pamphlets. [Included in the general library ars @ number of special collections, The principal groups of material of this kind are: x i The Lorne Pierce Collection of Canadian Literature is the gift of Dr. Lorne Pierce of Toronto. At pra- sant: it comprises in excess of 1,000 8 ite works. A major portion of fis cloion 1s devoted to Canadian 5 manuseript First Humorist: So you always ! vately printed read your jokes to your wife? ditions. : Next One: Yes, and when she American Ambassador MacVeigh tells a group of college societies 'in Japan, interested in "learning to speak English, that the best place to learn it fs in England, because that is the source of the language. They will find io America much of value, he says, but for the language itself, they had better go to the mother land of our sommon tongue. & ond ot Lave. proceeded | wo tention to the cordiality of the re-| |i not been equalled anywhere else in |- quarters of the Sacred College were |p newspapers | fi the princes of the Roman Catholic i [Church who have attended the Eu-! i ritish British Whig Bldg. Whig Commercial Frinting Bepartment Phone 2614 Kingston, Ontario acted as custodian of early church records and to-day has a very rich collection of such material supple- meénted by many early pamphlets and scarce periodicals. 5 After the fire which destroyed the Old Medical building, the Medical Library was incorporated with the General Library as a special section, his section has its own reading room. The growth of the 'medical collections during the last two years has been very substantial and a con- tinuous effort is being made to in- crease the number" of complete sets of the prinéipal medical and related journals, % Early Newspapers. ' /.. Few libraries in Canada has done much along the line of building up a large collection of bound newspap- ers. We hive here very early files of the local papers as well as To- ronto. and Montreal. At present papers are being currently received and bound from Kingston, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, New York, Lon don, Edinburgh and Manchester. Some of the services which the University Library is prepared to refider to. the Summer School stu- dent may be of interest if noted here, The main reading room is open daily from 9 a.m. to 12 m. and 1.30 to 4 p.m. Saturdays closing at 1 p.m. In this room are kept working col- FLY TIME USE FLIT in tins ...50c. and 75c. FLY-TOX in bottles 50¢ and 75¢ TANGLEFOOT FLY SPRAY In ting ....., BOe and 75c. Jas. REDDEN & CO. * PHONES 120 snd 990. Fin Loaf Jettions of: important reference books and from time to time special reserve books * . supplement these, being brought from the bookstacks as re- qlired. + Adjoining the main reading room is a periodical reading room where current newspapers and the issues of some 400 general and special per- fodicals will be found. * The card catalogue is aldo on this floor. This catalogue arranged like a dictionary contains entries for authors, editors, subjects and &is- tinctive titles, all arranged in one alphabet. The Library is able through its re- lations with other American libraries to borrow practically any work need- The name McCALLUM in the world of MEMORIALS is a MARK of DISTINCTION 896-307 Princess Street, Kingstor, Ont, : "Phone 1931, n ed for use here, from the larger libraries of Canada and of the Unit- ed States. In the case of very rare works it is possible to obtain photo static copies at a very nominal cost. ht