*p ; \ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. Fhe Sih sh. PUBLISHING sessameressscesss President sons deseo JEditer and Man aging-Director TE anos Office ... ftorial Rooms - Ob OffI00 ,vovnrsenses os BSCR. ION RA' sv Baltion) ATES ® year, asiivered in in sity anees +§6.00 o Jar: if paid in advance . 0 "4. G. Biot; Leman A. me year. By Snail tp sural oioes Year. ¢ United States ne year, by mal e year, if not ne year, to Un OUT-OF-TOWN RE ES Fr Calder, 22 Bt. John St, Montreal . W. Th w. 0 King St. Letters to the Editor are published only over the actual name of lhe writer. hed is one of the best job IE Sa offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the ABO Audit Bureau of Circulations. he germ of war multiplies rapidly in sore spots. : The best cure for unemploymént I» a vigorous epidemic of buying. Not the least of England's minor worries at present is Asia Minor, ------------ One of the boys is usually the black sheep of the family, but Old Dad is always the goat, The most remarkable thing about an infant is its appetite, This is also true of infang industries. The habit of Cus ng one another was probably unknown to the world until the first man ran for, office, The advt, writer who sald: "You remember the quality; you forget the price," wasn't talking about war, Every once ih a while you find an old-fashiomed preacher who still per- sists in preaching about religion, An umpire's practice in making. quick decisions should meke him um. usually successful as a pedestrian, _ If ,the reformers keep on, a man won't be able to do a single thing he would 'whip his sriall 'son for do' ing. When a Jap wishes to show his contempt for a fellow Jap he probab- ly remarks that the other has a white streak, iy ---------------- Russia can't get over an uneasy feeling that the rest of the world will try to make her respectable while feeding her, In their efforts to get together, ne- tions show a commendable willing- +mess to do anything short of being yeasonable, ; A ------ Temptation can't run fast enough to keep away from the man who has & pocket full of easy money and time to spend it. " The only thing that grows larger ag it is divided into parts is the tax the manufacturer passes on to the consumer, And yet, there is a lot of satisfac- in writing paragraphs good enough for other paragraphers to -------------------- Perhaps the frost did it, but on close inspection we observe that some * of the peaches on the street are a little wrinkled. As we understand it, Ireland might be willing to remain in the family if it is clearly understood that she doesn't have to do it. With a square foot of pumpkin under our belt, we have an une ken faith that the heart of the 1d is not broken yet, 41 . it a boy can't learn to shoot ght, and has a habit of blaming He wrong belligerent, he will prob- ably grow up to be a policeman, el 5 The firet sessions of the peace par- ly between England and Ireland; it 18 announced, "will be devoted to preliminaries." Then will come the main bout. : Now a woman wants a divorce her husband Because 'he spent | his time tinkering with the auto- Eh However, the divorce action suggests that he finally got her go- PREFERRED TO BREAD. Human beings would be better off | perhaps were they less prone to buy | luxuries when ghort of the means of | procuring the necessaries of life. This curious propensity marked often; the fatuousness of it has been emphasized in claseie fable; the vice of it is daily exemplified, Yet Do noticeable impression is made on' riba. pooper Phe explaoptiontsprop: ably that human beings generally un- consciously subscribe to the doctrine that the world owes them a living and therefore they wil] collect it somehow, whereas for the less sub- stantial but m prized satisfactions they must make sacrifices, Acceptance of such a theory per- mits us to read with patience .the news that the Russian government has brought a lot of American type- writers, paying for them with furs. If there is anything that Russia needs less than typewriters, it can- not be called to mind. That is only our opinion based on knowledge of 32 the scarcity of necessities of life in Russia, As a fact, what is more indispen- sable to the soviet outfit than writing machines? The tyrants will get all the bread they require; if there were but one crust left in the empire it would ®e theirs, They hold life cheaply. . The great boon to human- ity is the decree, the pronunciamento, the theoretical discussion. The lea- ders of Bolshevism must keep these flowing in an unbroken stream. With typewriters they can Increase the stream to a flood. Somehow the people will get bread, But there is no satisfaction for the Lenine gang equa] to that of telling the world. So the tyrants buy typewriters for the good of the souls of their victims with furs that , | might, better have becn traded for food to keep the souls in their bodfes. MOTION PICTURES IN SOHOOLS. The old philosopher who told ,the king there was no royal road to leatning, that is to say, no smooth, convenient highway to avoid the rocks and ruts of the customary path, lived before the days of motion pie- tures. Some recent experiments indicate that before long this invention will be generally utilized to make educa- tion more efficient. In New York 500 pupils of the "seventh grade, divided into three groups, were test- ed. One set was given a prescribed lesson orally; the others, through motion pletures. The latter received marks averaging 23 per cent. higher than those of the orally instructed. In Detroit two groups of scholars, equal in stapding and intelligence, were selected for the comparison. A certain film was shown twice to the first group, the time occupying thir- teen minutes. The teacher did not explain' the pictures while they were being shown, nor did she prepare the children for the lesson intended to be conveyed. The teacher of the other group gave the pupils a fifty- five minute talk. Then. identical lists of questions were glvén to two groups to answer, Those who got their les- son through the eys Instead of through the.ear made better average marks of over three per cent. Four weeks later an impromptu hemory test on this same lesson was sprung ou both sets of pupils, and those who had learned through the pictures scored a four per cent. higher marke Ing. There are subjects, of course, in which pletures can never be substi- tuted for good, hard digging in the books. Nor would it be desirable to dispense with the mental discipline which comes through vigorous, con- tinued exercise of the mind. The main object "of education, despite Mr. Edison's theory, is not the aé- cumulation of a mass of facts, but to train the mind to réason from facts and to learn where to find valuable information when needed. While wisely recognizing the natural limita tions of motion pictures, educators are coming to utilize them move as they perceive their practical possibijli« ties in the school room. A i=. A CALL FOR LOWER PRICES, The manufacturers of the United States, In a recommendation put be fore the national inemplYoyment cone ferente in Washington, have recom mended price cutting in many come modities as & means of stimulating business. To many such a stand may seem rather paradoxical, for it hag been fairly generally assumed that the manufacturers, more than any other clags, have been responsible for keéping prices at a high 1&vel, Nor has this been denied, for the manu- facturets themselves, at a session of the conference In which the nation's industria} ailments were frankly dis cussed, admitted that they thems selves were partly responsible for conditions, and resolved that they should now stand ready to lead the march back to industrial normalcy. The result was their recommendation that all concerned, from the many~ facturer down through the jobber to the retailer, put reduced prices into effect at once. Although this recommendation has come as emergency measure, as & means of creating employment, it is one that should long age have been prompted by common sense business judgment. One bf the busiest manu facturers in America today is Henry Ford, and his activity.in the midst of |a genera! business depression is at- tributed directly to the fact that he had sufficient foresight to cut his | { prices. Prices in general, it bas | | been estimated, should not in any | has been | case be more than fifty per cent. {above the pre-war level. Yet figures compiled By the United States gov- ernment show that most commodities j are far above that average and in BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY ! {i BETTER THAN SILVER | AND GOLD: Godliness with | { contentment is great gain. For we | brought nothing into 'this world, and | it is certain we can carry nothing out. | And having food and raiment, let us therewith be content.--1 Timothy 6: 6. 7 8 AEE ISIE CASE are ay RH aE TIE | cent. above 1914 prices. The hope {of those who urge a lowering of { prices is thht a general level will be | re-established which will make pos- sible a general resumption of busi- ness. ' It is a fact that there has been for the past year, and still is, a buyers' strike. This is no fallacy. It.is one of the direct causes of the business depression and unemployment, E!f- forts to end the strike of buying have tailed, simply because the right methods have not been adopted. The public have been waiting for prices to come down, and although many articles are now cheaper, they are still waiting, The result has been a great slackening of industry. The only way to better conditions is that which has been recommended by the manufacturers of the United States, and in line with which Canadian manufacturers must fall. Prices must come down all along the scale, not in a half-hearted, make-believe fash- fon but in.a general sweep which will create demand, stimulate buying and set the wheels of industry going once again as rapidly as before. If the manufacturers are sincere in their recommendation, then there is a strong hope for a speedy better- ment of conditions, THE BRAMPTON MEETING, The Brampton meeting of the Farmers' party may be taken as a fair indication of the awakening con- sciousness of the Agrarian forces in Ontario. That if' should attract farmers from three counties in such numbers as to oceupy the two largest buildings in the town, and leave a still larger audience outside, is in ft- self significant, Nothing like it has occurred in the rura] communities of Western Ontario. Press reports in- dicate that Mr, Crerar had it pretty much his own way and that the audi- ence was with him, It will be difficult for Mr. Meighen to follow him in Western Ontario and maintain that the tariff is the only issue. A lawyer, a publicist and a business farmer are the recoghiz. ed leaders. Neither of the first two have ever been in business.' Mr. Crerar represents the largest co- operative business in the country, has the business man's way of look- ing at things, and a directness of ap- proach to his subject that is appeal the tariff, and his illustration of its working so as to pay 8 per cent, dividend on stock, ninety per cent. of which is water, will doubtless be dis- cussed at every cross roads for the next few weeks, But Mr. Crerar wants to know about other things also, and he will not be silenced in his reiteration of where the party funds come from. Mr. Crerar should know. He was a member of the Union government and a membe# of the cabinet, Is it because he does know, because he knows too well, how easy it is to put a party under obligation on account of large sums for party purposes, because he knows with what utter callousness thése large subscriptions can be switched from party to party to obtain the de- sired end, or in the emergency of a political landslide, that he wants every one else to know? Mr, Crerar is out for clean politics and he will hive the people of Canada behind him in his pious wish, Besldes, there has been a war, no over, with its gruesome aftermath, and the farmers' party and a good many others are anxious to express their opifilon of the muddle of in competency which Sir James Loug- heed's department has exhibited, Un- employment and the shifting of the viewpoint of the political patties to agriculture as the basic industry of Canada is also another angle which the farmers want discussed. Mr. Crerar was very ffank upon the sub ect of the tariff, He is willing to discuss it, he wants it discussed and he promises that if his party were returned to power to-morrow the tariff would not be wiped out at once or altogether. He even hints that it might take twenty years to ac- complish it, but that a minimum of protection for governmental purposes alone is the goal of the farmers' party. He ls more frank in this statement than Mr. McKensie King has been, Incidentally the Brampton meeting showed the resentment of the farm- ers' party at the innuendoes, heard more than once, that they were seek- ing class government, or that they had wrecking or Bolshevist tenden- cles. The farmers, it was pointed out, can not pull down; it is their function more than that of all others In Canada to build up a free, homo- geneous people who will recognize no class save the citizenship of Cane ada. Altogether with the coming of Mr. Crerar we may look for very in- jeresting times in old Ontario, ing. He is not afraid to talk about] "Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER aa THE MOVIES A million children, every night, bes hold the movie actors; in education, wrong or right, the films are mighty factors. And so the famous movie folk have influence unmeasured; their every move, their every joke, in youthful hearts are treasured. So they | should make their lives so clean | they'll sparkle in their beauty, and not seem angels on the screen, and | demons when off duty. As artists true they shoul appear, &#nd not as bloom- ing smarties; they should cut out the booze and beer and all the frenzied parties. My little Willie goes to-night tc see a movie story; the heroine is | blithe and bright, all smiling in her | glory; but scmeone whispers to the | iad, "She gocs her gaudy courses as | though she radn't whipped her dad, | and gained fourteen divorces." And | Willie in admiring mood regards the | hero's capers till Whisper says, "He's | often stewed--1I read it in the pap-| ers." Then Willie toddles home, his | sentiments unspoken, but mournful | thoughts sre in his dome--his idols have been broken. The Bluebeard door has been unlocked, one glance therein suffices; and:little kids should not be shocked by tales of tawdry vic- €E. --WALT MASON. ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR BY BAM HILL "Gives Himself Away, The man who never knows too much Is never wise enough To keep his talk from provin' That he » just a bluff. Obesrvationg of Oldest Inhabitant, I Kin remember when a man had to | watch his step to keep from treading | on the ladies' trains. Not Out of Date, "A few years ago you boasted you had a model husband," then why have Jou separated from him?" "Well, you see, he was & 1918 model and he's now out of date." a That's Our Guess. "Dear Sam: "If licker ig more plen- tiful now and easier to get, why In the Sam Hill are the antls raving ag- ainst prohibition ?""--T. A. R. Heel, Asheville, N.C, We don't know, old top, Qnless it 1s | because of the price. Must'a Been an Eyeful, You talk about funny notions, And you would laugh "Hee-Haw" If you'd look at Miss Issipp! And see what Arkansas, A. A, Jackson, Ga. 4 Where It Hurt More, "I hear you were injured on your trip." "You heard wrong. I was injured on) my foot." * Remarkable Remarks, (Never Made.) "The use of tobacco should be prohi- bited," Volstead. "A little Uquor now and then is good for every man," Bryan, "lI regret 1 have only one life to give my country," Bergdoll. "I have reduced your rent 50 per cent." The Landlord. "My greatest ambition In life 1s to do and say only those things that will make me popular with the American people," LaFollette. "I do not need & new hat this fall," A 'Wite. Fool Questions, == A: K. asks: "Is the man who is fast asleep in danger of being arrested for speeding 7' Just One Darn Thing After Another We're through with ice And now our roll Will go to buy A load of coal. Houk! Honk! Mands Up! The bands of thieves these days ap pear to preferautomobile horns. Might Teach Them Something. "What would you consider an ade- quate punishment for speed fiends?" | "I would sentence them to ten days dodging automobiles at the most aan- gerous crossings in town." Diary of Miss Oppertunity, Friday, Oot. #11 see doctors look upon sleeping sickness as rare disease. I run into hundreds of cases of it every day. Rip Van Winkle only slept twenty years and then woke up, but these birdy never wake up. Have talent and ability, but peacefully sleep while world rolls by. Doubt if anything less than earth- quake dould rouse 'em. Bome of them may have sweet dreams, but all ars nightmares to familiéa ---- Daily Sentence Sermon. Working for the best beats hoping for it ------ Tell It Not to Voistead, A prim, and model lang Is young Miss Arleen Hughes; But shocking tales they tell, They say she wears tight shoes! ---- News of the Names Club, A Kokomo (ind) reader declares Missus Beer, of New Orleans, does not [for she never drank the stuff. By 'the way, Burdon and Bills have & Shoe store at Kokomo. As everybody Kaows that's a good combination all bills are Burdens. -- Anybody Ought to Know That. "How should & married woman sign her name to letterd and checks? is a question lamped in & Chicago ctontem~ porary. Just use » pen and ink lady. It's perfectly simple When you know how. 'Worthy of Black Diamonds. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1021. SI FR TR - = SR BB BY"S a 3 NEW CHESTER- FIELDS Nobby Genteel $30.00 SEE OUR ENGLISH ULSTERS Ful back, silk sleeve and shoulder lining, plaid iots--extra special value MEN'S OVERCOATS $15, $22.50 up. BIBBY'S New Overconic Are Real Masterpieces of Tailor's Art. 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Lockhart Real Estate and Insurance We have removed our office to B58 Brock Street, Kingston a THOMAS COPLEY J ephians ryt wood floors yr will receiv IN Queen horse " pn wp 'RAWFORL SEE OAL QUARTET TE] GAIN we post a notice At the effect that cold weather is coming. We want to call your attention to two things. One is that you'll need a bountiful sup- ply of coal this winter and the other is that we've got the very coal article you're in need of. Crawford Scranton Coal Phone 0. Foot of Queen St.